Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Hodiernal Past Tense

Definition: 

Hodiernal past tense is a past tense that refers to a time as located before the moment of utterance within the span culturally defined as "today."

See Also: 
Utterance
Source: 
Comrie 1985b
87
Dahl 1985
125–126

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.

LinguaLinks Ordering Information

Glossary Hierarchy

  • Grammatical Category
  • Tense
  • Absolute Tense
  • Past Tense
  • Hodiernal Past Tense