Turkish womanish dramaturgy: origin, development, conflict by Irina Prushkovskaya

“…Turkish womanish drama from the period of origin and to the present tense puts the main questions of existence of individual in society, influences of society on life of personality, forming of world view in a modern life. …”
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DIFFICULTIES OF READING ARABIC AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE by Ali Shaban

“…The results showed that some areas in the Arabic language posed a real challenge to the reader; (1) Predicting the vowels that shape the phonological structure of the word. (2) Determining the correct vowel that goes with the second consonants of the verb-root. (3) Determining the correct vowel that goes with the tense-subject morpheme of the present tense. (4) The grammatical case endings of verbs and nouns according to the grammatical function they carry in the sentence. …”
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A Passive Marker in South Azerbaijani Turkic: -mAK ol by TALİP DOĞAN

“…In this structure; -(y)(A)r, -(y)(X)r ~ -(y)(X)rI / -mAz ~ -mAs, -mXr ~ -mXrI aorist and present tense suffixes, which are mostly used to present non-focal and always continuous events, are included. …”
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/k/ lenition in Persian history: a Laboratory Phonology view by Fahimeh Khodaverdi, Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami, Mojtaba Monshizadeh

“…This article accounts for the acoustic grounds of the diachronic lenition of Old Persian /k/ to [ʧ] and [z] in certain verbal (present tense) and nonverbal forms and to [x] in the past tense of the same verbs, in /V‌‌__ [a, e]/ and /V__[t]/ contexts respectively. …”
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Tenses, Voices, and Moves in the ELT Research Abstracts: A Corpus-based Study by Achmad Kholili

“…In tenses, introduction and results of the study employed present tense, whereas past tense was frequently used in aims, methods, and results. …”
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To or Not to : Corpus-Based Research on First-Person Pronoun Use in Abstracts and Conclusions by Shih-ping Wang, Wen-Ta Tseng, Robert Johanson

“…These findings also suggest that the present tense was used more in article abstracts, but the present perfect tense was the most preferred tense in article conclusions. …”
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Językowe sposoby wyrażania punktu kulminacyjnego w opowiadaniach potocznych by Katarzyna Wyrwas

“…An important feature is that historical present forms provide delimitation in conversational narrative: present tense forms occurring alternately with the forms of the past tense is used to separate each subsequent event from other event, allow speaker to organize the story in chronological following segments.The complicating action in colloquial stories is emphasized also phonetically: due to changes in accentuation and intonation. …”
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Shift of Oral and Written Discourse Features in Audio-visual Translation A Corpus-Based Study by Salah BEN HAMMOU

“…In this case study, it can be concluded that positive features, namely first- and second person pronouns, private verbs and present -tense are more frequent than the negative features in the three samples. …”
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How to engage parents in language learning in order to motivate young linguists without causing undue workload to practitioners by Delgado-Hall, M

“…The experimental group had an extra section where parents would write a message to their child based on their performance, and would write related comment or question to the subject teacher such as “I see my son/daughter is struggling with present tense verbs, what websites do you recommend for further practice?.” …”

A comparative multidimensional study of the English translation of Lunyu (The Analects): a corpus-based analysis by He, Mengyu

“…It is found that there are more private verbs, present tense verbs, be as main verb, past tense verbs, third-person pronouns, and public verbs in Legge’s The Analects of Confucius, whereas Ku’s The Discourses and Sayings of Confucius uses nouns, adjectives, long words, nominalisations, and time adverbials more often. …”
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Comparing Tense Systems: the Primacy of the Pres/Past Opposition by Olga Borik, Paz González, Henk Verkuyl

“…Some empirical facts, like, for instance, the absence of the present tense interpretation with perfective verb forms, will fall out naturally.…”
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RHETORICAL MOVES AND LINGUISTIC REALIZATIONS OF RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACTS BY INDONESIAN AUTHORS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS by Husnul Hakim, Safnil Arsyad, Syahrial Syahrial

“…The results reveal; 1) Move 2 (Aim/ Purpose), Move 3 (Method) and Move 4 (Finding/ Result) exist in total sixty RA abstracts, unlike Move 1 (Introduction) and Move 5 (Conclusion and Suggestion), 2) The Simple Present Tense is major tense to apply in all rhetorical moves except in Move 3 (Method) in which Past Tense is mostly used. 3) Active voice dominates rhetorical moves except in Move 3 (Method) in which Passive voice is precisely more applied. …”
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Testing the Representational Deficit Hypothesis: From the Aspect of Chinese Learners’ Acquisition of Affixation ‘-s’ for Third Person Singular Verbs and Plural Nouns by Ni Li, Lianrui Yang

“…In English, affix morpheme ‘-s’ marks either third person singular (3SG) in the present tense or regular plural nouns. In contrast, Chinese is a language which lacks 3SG markings but presents the morpheme ‘men’ to reflect a plural feature for nouns with a human property. …”
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Pragmatics of Crisis-Motivated Humour in Computer Mediated Platforms in Nigeria by Ayodele James Akinola

“…Use of the first person singular pronoun ‘I’ and second person singular/plural ‘you’ with the use of simple present tense of verb among other grammatical elements, are a norm. …”
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Morphological Characteristics of the Language used in Civil Engineering by Liliana-Florentina RICINSCHI

“…As part of ESP, it is thus bound to have a set of specialized lexical and grammatical features which are not in the repertoire of the non-users of that particular domain: complex noun phrases, special use of articles, special use of modal verbs, frequency of the passive voice and of present tense simple, long complex sentences, collocations, specialized terminology. …”
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Linguistic analysis of the autobiographical memories of individuals with major depressive disorder. by Philip Himmelstein, Scott Barb, Mark A Finlayson, Kymberly D Young

“…RESULTS:When recalling positive memories MDD individuals used the word "I" less, fewer positive words, more words indicating present focus (present tense verbs), and fewer words overall to describe memories compared to controls. …”
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Caryl Phillips’s Rewriting of the Canonical Romance as a Genre by Polatti, Alessia

“…In The Lost Child, chronicling literary-historical events in the present tense by transferring the life of the Brontë family into the protagonists of Wuthering Heights (1847) is for the author one way of calling into question the real sense of literature. …”
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Totius en die boek Openbaring by H.A. Louw

“…The multitude who comes (present tense) out of the great tribulation are those who died for their faith when Revelation was written. …”
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Accentuation of i-verbs in the Sixteenth-century Chronograph from the E. V. Barsov Collection by Anastasia K. Polivanova

“…Firstly, the first-person Present for the accentual paradigm c in the Barsov Chronograph has stress on the ending, like other word forms of the Present tense (in early Old Russian, first person forms are defined as enclinomena, and their transformation into stress-bearing word forms happened in various dialects at various times). …”
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The necessitive impersonal REIK(Ė)TI ‘need’: the rise of modal meaning by Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Jolanta Šinkūnienė

“…The quantitative analysis shows that the present tense form reikia ‘need.PRS.3’ is the dominating one across all the sub-corpora analysed. …”
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