The Univariate Structure Of The Marked Simple Past Tense

 Matthiessen (1995: 730):

Examples:

positive & finite: temporal: past & marked focus : polarity (not shown in network) & no secondary & active

 

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This miconstrues and misrepresents the univariate structure of this verbal group. To be clear, the tense of this verbal group is again the simple past (V-ed), and so there is only one structural realisation of tense, not two:

did fall

α past