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Perfect Tense
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The Perfect and Temporal Psychology
Some theoretical linguists, particularly those focused on Chronosemantics, suggest that the ubiquity of the Perfect Tense across disparate language groups implies a universal cognitive necessity to distinguish between discrete past events and temporally continuous past consequences [6]. It is posited that languages without a distinct Perfect Tense exhibit higher rates of subjective temporal misattribution, where speakers project older completed …