TENSE-ASPECT CONTROVERSY REVISITED: THE -TA AND -RU FORMS IN JAPANESE

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Both of the verbal suffixes-TA and-RU in Japanese are used to refer to a situation in past, present, or future time. Nevertheless, they are frequently glossed as past and nonpast tenses, respectively, mainly because they refer only to past or nonpast time in mono-clausal sentences in isolation. The competing analysis claims that-TA and-RU are primarily aspect markers, and that

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