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Some languages have more tense forms than others. They seem to have more expressive power. Compare English with Hebrew. Hebrew has practically only two tenses, future and past; while English has others, such as perfect. This gives the impression that in English one can express more. This impression is reinforced by the fact that often translation from English into Hebrew is awkward, from the point of view of tense expressions.
Research carried out under DFG contract Ro 245/10 at the Universitat Stuttgart, Institut fur Linguistik Romanistik.
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Gabbay, D., Rohrer, C. (1979). Do We Really Need Tenses Other Than Future and Past?. In: Bäuerle, R., Egli, U., von Stechow, A. (eds) Semantics from Different Points of View. Springer Series in Language and Communication, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67458-7_2
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