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The grammatical category of tense relates to the expression of temporal relations and the linguistic embedding of real-world situations in time. It involves highly familiar categories such as the present tense, the present perfect, and the past tense, as well as several others. Tense marking has been widely researched in the grammar of English both in the standard varieties and in the non-standard varieties that are the topic of this book. Section 6.1 of this chapter will introduce the foundations of this category, while Section 6.2 will be concerned with tense in varieties of English. In Section 6.3, we will explore cross-linguistic variation in the realisation of this category.
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The grammatical category of tense relates to the expression of temporal relations and the linguistic embedding of real-world situations in time. It involves highly familiar categories such as the present tense, the present perfect, and the past tense, as well as several others. Tense marking has been widely researched in the grammar of English both in the standard varieties and in the non-standard varieties that are the topic of this book. Section 6.1 of this chapter will introduce the foundations of this category, while Section 6.2 will be concerned with tense in varieties of English. In Section 6.3, we will explore cross-linguistic variation in the realisation of this category.
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