There are other ways of looking at the temporal properties of an event or state than when it occurred or was true. It could be viewed as ongoing or completed, for example. Consider the difference between these two English sentences.
THE ANALYSIS OF THE GRAMMATICAL REPRESENTATION OF DURATION, COMPLETION, AND REPETITION IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES
Дилбар Холжигитова (Ташкент, Узбекистан) | Download article