Hi Rolf,
thanks for your summary of semantics versus pragmatics. I think you have adequately shown that you feel that tense is pragmatic. What do you feel to be semantic to a verb form?
Something I think ought to be considered is this. Should we not consider the semantics and pragmatics of each and every single word (that happens to be a verb) individually rather than clumping all verbs together on the assumption that they all behave in the same way?
James Christian
P.S. I appreciate, as a computational linguist, that data sparsity is a problem here
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