АRABIC TENSE SYSTEM AND REALITY MODELING
The article considers the issue of what message about the world and reality is conveyed at the basic level of the Arabic tense system by 1) the opposition of the equational and verbal sentence, 2) the opposition of two basic verbal forms, 3) the opposition of functionally independent and functionally dependent verbal forms, and 4) by the opposition of forms with the meaning of the present and past tenses.