The Investigation of Recency in English Tense

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade: 17 University of Wuppertal (Anglistik/ Amerikanistik) course: English Tense language: English 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 willevaluate 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.