Time in language.

By B. Comrie. 2000

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L2 effects on L1 event conceptualization* (2010, background): “Accordingly, the notion of imperfectivity also covers the subcategories of habituality, durativity and (non-)progressivity (for further discussion on these subcategories, see, e.g., Comrie, 1976; Havu, 1998; Klein, 1994; Schmiedtová & Flecken, 2008).”
Predicting Second Language Writing Proficiency: The Roles of Cohesion and Linguistic Sophistication (2012, background): “Aspect, on the other hand, conveys the dynamics of the point itself such as whether the point is ongoing or completed (Klein, 1994).”
Processing tense/aspect-agreement violations on-line in the second language: A self-paced reading study with French and German L2 learners of English (2013, background): “The first was the critical sentence and it contained a temporal adverbial (a prepositional phrase or adverbial expression) in the topic position, thus modifying the time being talked about (the Topic Time, TT; see Klein, 1994).”
On the event relativity of modal auxiliaries (2010, background): “Formally, perfective is treated as an existential quantifier over the VP event, which places its running time within a reference time interval (cf. Kratzer’s 1998 formalization of Klein 1994).”