It wouldn't surprise me if Mr Kristof's teacher hadn't learned that since kataba ("he wrote") is the shortest form, it was the atomic or ur-form, and that the past was therefore "the basic tense", an analysis that wouldn't make it through a graduate seminar in western linguistics.
For a defense of the quantificational over the operator analysis of tense, see King (2003).
The next section will show that for an adequate analysis of tense and aspect the semantics of verbs, verb phrases and whole sentences has to be taken into account.
A Guardian analysis of Tensing's body-camera footage released by the Hamilton County prosecutor on Wednesday shows that on two occasions immediately after DuBose is shot, Kidd reinforced Tensing's claim he was dragged: "Yeah, I saw that," Kidd said in the aftermath of a split-second killing of DuBose, as Tensing recounted how he was dragged.
(Prior himself was critical of Reichenbach's analysis of the tenses, and described it as having been 'in some ways a hindrance rather than a help to the construction of a logic of tenses' (Prior 1967a: 13, Reichenbach 1948).) Scott's tense logic was rather different in style from Prior's.
(See, however, Cummings (2015) analysis of the evolution of tense in English from an SFL perspective).
Still, Reichenbach's analysis is inadequate to account for the full range of tense usage in natural language.
Designers, typographers, and geographers are becoming interested in the discourse analysis of such semiotic relationships as focus, theme, transitivity, grammatical mode, tense, and aspect.
Analysis of the body language of the second presidential debate suggested a tense exchange between President Obama and Governor Romney.
As well as fear of addiction, the analysis also identified the 'Drinking makes me feel more relaxed and less tense' argument as prominent among hazardous users.
