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Is There a Relative Tense Marking in Chinese?
If you've got a perspective, it can act like an anterior tense. English is much more absolute tense focused. So that's not surprising. It can be a little bit confusing. You can avoid an absolute Tense system, but still sneak in relative Tense marking in various ways with things like anterior or posterior Tenses. Which Vietnamese does something very much like this.