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In his Elements of Symbolic Logic [1947], Hans Reichenbach put forth a description of tenses which was to have a significant impact upon the linguistic community. Reichenbach suggested that in order to understand how tenses work we must consider not only the time of utterance, and the time of the event in question, but also a ‘point of reference’.
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(1995). A three-point structure of tenses. In: Temporal Logic. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 57. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-37463-5_16
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