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[Revised entry by Friedrich Hamm and Oliver Bott on February 9, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html]
Time flies like an arrow…. Fruit flies like a banana. – Oettinger (1966) Many languages have grammatical means to indicate the time when an action or event occurs, or when a state or process holds. This phenomenon is called tense. In English, for example, adding…

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