Recent Past Tense ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/RecentPastTense


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      |_ Abstract
            |_ Linguistic Property
                  |_ Morphosemantic Property
                        |_ Tense Property
                              |_ Recent Past Tense

Definition:

RecentPastTense locates the situation in question prior to the present moment, but by culturally and situationally defined criteria, usually within the span ranging from yesterday to a week or a few months previous [Comrie 1985,87; Dahl 1985,121-122].



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Language Code: ike Bybee, et al indicate that Inuit manifests a 2-way past distinction that makes no reference to daily cycles. The two subdivisions they reference are given in the second and third examples. The first example, with the affix glossed as PERF, illustrates a past that Fortescue claims is often understood as a general experiential past without any specified time. This might be analyzed as a Simple Past.
2009-06-04 13:28:08
niri-qqammir-punga
eat-REC.PST-1.SG.IND
I ate recently.

References:
Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca (1994:99) FROM Fortescue (1984:272-3)


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