Too tense or not too tense

Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:01:39 -0500

Rolf Furuli <furuli@online.no> wrote:

>(2) Past time is not necessarily expressed by all
>occurrences of imperfect/aorist. If we use `tense` we take a
>stand for the past tense- view against those viewing it
>differently.

Are there instances where the imperfect is used without past
referent?

Jonathan

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