Hi Rolf,
for the benefit of the list members can you provide a quick explanation of tense and aspect as defined by your parameters event time, reference time and deictic centre with a couple of example sentences that illustrate the use of the tools?
I'm fairly sure that using this same method and applying it to any modern language we would find that both tense and aspect are cancellable to the verb systems of all languages. The reason I make this observation is that while I concede that there may be an uncancellable meaning which is common to all uses of a verb form I'm pretty sure that language speakers are unaware of it when they use a verb form and are more conscious of the use they wished to express.
James Christian
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