The Investigation of Recency in English Tense

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Wuppertal (Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), course: English Tense, language: English, comment: In der vorliegenden Hausarbeit geht es um eine Untersuchung zum Thema "recency" in englischen Zeiten. "Recency" ist in der Literatur nicht klar definiert, allerdings handelt es sich um das grammatische Ausdrcken eines "events", welches vor geringer Zeit abgeschlossen wurde. , abstract: In this paper, I will give an overview as to what recency connotes in English tensed sentences, where and when it occurs and how it is procured. Lastly I will
evaluate the poll that I created regarding the matter of recency and list the insights that it lead to, focussing on the problem that recency faces, without specific markers, to find out whether simple past and past progressive, as well as simple present and present perfective, can be replaced by one another.