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How do you inflect tenses?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

So far as the form itself goes, you can't inflect a tense, because a tense is already an inflection, and inflections can't be themselves inflected. However, there are reasons in English to treat the perfect tense syntactically as a tense inflected form of a past tense. This is argued in, e.g., James McCawley's book The Syntactic Phenomena of English.

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12y ago

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