← Back

Numbers, Time & Dates

Cardinal and ordinal numbers, telling time, days, months and dates
Temporalität: Reichenbachsches Modell
Temporality: Reichenbach's model
speech time, reference time, event time
Formal analysis of German tense using S, R, E
Das Perfekt: resultativ vs narrativ
The perfect: resultative vs narrative
current relevance vs past narration
Two functions of the German perfect tense
Tempusgebrauch im Text: Tempustransition
Tense use in text: tense transitions
Präteritum narration with Plusquamperfekt flashback
How tenses structure narrative discourse
Futur: Tempus oder Modus?
Future: tense or mood?
werden expresses prediction/assumption
Debate on whether German has a true future tense
Temporaladverbien und Aspektselektion
Temporal adverbs and aspect selection
schon, noch, gerade, bereits
Adverbs selecting for aspectual interpretation
Konjunktiv der Vergangenheit
Past subjunctive
hätte gemacht, wäre gegangen
Counterfactual past in Konjunktiv II
Zeitenfolge (Consecutio Temporum)
Sequence of tenses
tense agreement in embedded clauses
Rules governing tense in subordinate clauses
Aspektualität durch Aktionsartverben
Aspectuality through Aktionsart verbs
anfangen zu, dabei sein zu, pflegen zu
Periphrastic expression of aspect in German
Historisches Präsens
Historical present
Goethe stirbt 1832.
Present tense for past events (vivid narration)
Temporalsätze: nachdem, bevor, während, sobald
Temporal clauses: after, before, while, as soon as
tense and aspect coordination across clauses
Temporal subordination and tense relationships