I agree that this is a reasonable question. But did David in fact say
that "the same is not true with other verb forms which refer to past
completed events", or is his definition of "past tense" just something
like "verb forms which refer to past completed events"? The latter
definition might be somewhat fuzzy, but it might also fit real language
better than the very precise definition which you insist on.
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Peter Kirk
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