Dear Peter,
Here you completely miss the mark! The point is as follows: All linguists know, and ordinary people know that some verbs can refer to the past because the verb forms themselves have an intrinsic past tense, and other verbs can in one context refer to the past and in other contexts to the future. This is absolutely not theory-dependent, since this is a fact that no one would dispute. ...
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