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Past Tenses & Future
Preteritum, perfekt, pluskvamperfekt and the future with kommer att / ska
Svenskan som tempus-framträdande system
Swedish tense system as tense-prominent (unlike Greek's aspect)
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Tense, not aspect, is the primary organizing verbal category
Diakron utveckling av starka/svaga verbklasser
Diachronic development of strong/weak verb classes
from Proto-Germanic ablaut
A shared inheritance across the whole Germanic language family
Grammatikalisering av ska/kommer att som framtidsmarkörer
Grammaticalization of ska/kommer att as future markers
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Both trace back to verbs of obligation/motion, not pure tense marking
Supinum vs perfekt particip: morfologisk teori
The supine vs perfect participle distinction: morphological theory
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A subtle but grammatically important distinction in Swedish
-s-passiv vs bli-passiv: semantiska/syntaktiska skillnader
-s passive vs bli-passive: semantic and syntactic differences
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Two passive strategies with distinct nuances of meaning
Tempusföljdsfenomen och syntaktiska begränsningar
Sequence-of-tense phenomena and their syntactic constraints
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Formal rules governing how tenses combine across clauses
Komparativa skandinaviska tempus-/aspektsystem
Comparative Scandinavian tense/aspect systems
Swedish vs Norwegian vs Danish
Closely related but not identical verbal systems
Korpusbaserad frekvens av preteritum vs perfekt
Corpus-based frequency of preteritum vs perfect in narrative registers
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Data-driven insight into how these tenses are actually used
Beräkningsmässig tempusklassificering för svensk NLP
Computational tense classification for Swedish NLP systems
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Automated systems must distinguish these overlapping tense forms
Dialektal variation i starka verbs preteritumformer
Dialectal variation in strong verb preteritum forms
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Some regional dialects preserve older or divergent vowel patterns