Tenseless

I've modeled this system partly on what I know of the pecularities of the Mandarin verb which is also tenseless. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The more I ponder on an underlying tenseless, two-dimensional system for PIE verbs, the more I see many advantages to it as well as some unexpected quirks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An experiential form, parallel to Mandarin guo 过, can easily yield explicit past tense "sigmatic aorists" in Core IE dialects, while forming special 3ps sigmatic past forms for an originally tenseless hi-class as evidenced by Anatolian and Tocharian. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Notice that my theory suggests that Anatolian-Tocharian dialects were developing tense out of a tenseless system, making the former progressive marker *-i a present tense marker. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The core of a Davidsonian event semantics are predications like the following: swim (Ewan) (e) (58) is the classical Davidsonian formalization of the tenseless sentence Ewan swim. ❋ Kratzer, Angelika (2009)

More on the fascinating subject of Chinese aspects can be read here if one wants to explore the implications of a tenseless language further. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Adding to my previous explanation of a tenseless conjugation in Common Proto-Indo-European PIE, I notice that by comparing the sigmatic aorist marked in *-s- with the experiential marker guo in Mandarin, a tenseless language, we start to see how it's possible for a number of dialects that have all grammaticized tense can still all derive, strangely enough, from a completely tenseless language. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The so-called hic-et-nunc *-i is never used in the negative mood eg: *h₁ésti "It is."/*ne h₁ést "It's not" - the secondary endings were thus by current definition tenseless. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For this, I feel the need to appeal to the tenseless language I'm most familiar with, Mandarin. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So you seem to be in favor of tenseless time theology. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Just as it is often argued that the truth-predicate is tenseless and timeless, so it is sometimes argued or assumed that “obtains” is tenseless and timeless. ❋ Mulligan, Kevin (2007)

Johnny-Dee had suggested that they are biconditional assuming we are talking about theists: God is timeless if and only if time is tenseless. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Everyone agrees that time is characterizable in terms of past-present-future (tensed properties); and everyone agrees that time is characterizable in terms of earlier-later (the so-called 'tenseless properties). ❋ Unknown (2006)

Broad suspected that there was a subtle ambiguity in the copula ˜is™ between tensed and tenseless uses, between the uses in, for instance: ❋ Savitt, Steven (2006)