Korean tense-aspect profile (WALS Chs 65–69, 78) #
@cite{wals-2013} @cite{cumming-2026}
Korean (Koreanic): perfective/imperfective (-었- vs -고 있-); inflectional past (-었-); inflectional future (-겠-); no distinct perfect; suffixing. Evidentiality via verbal suffixes (-te retrospective, -ney contemporaneous; @cite{cumming-2026} analyzes these as tense-evidential interactions).
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