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Spoken German shows a characteristic degradation of preterit forms. This study provides a comprehensive documentation of this “disappearance of the preterit” in time and space. It describes the loss of the preterit as a principled process of displacement and develops a new integrated picture to resolve the contradictory state of the theoretical research from the past 130 years.

German language --- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / German --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General --- Tense --- Verb --- E-books --- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / German. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- Tense. --- Verb. --- Aspect. --- Present Perfect. --- Preterit.