In Universities^x, Present perfect^x, Clauses^x

Hello, everyone: I've asked a question in http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuestionAboutTenseUsageSinceClause/gwxpb/post.htm , but I find out there are more than I need to ask, so I think it would be better to write a new post. Recently I saw several sentences using simple past and...

Hello, Hoa Thai. Although Goodman outstripped me and deserved the brave one's laurels, I'd like to add some of the comments which I had started typing yesterday in the university, but hadn't time to finish... Your reasonong is interesting but not fault-less. «As CalifJim clearly...

... her his help. << Are the books we ordered/have ordered used by any other university here? Simple past or present perfect or both with different meanings ? It seems to me that discourse grammar forces the use of "have ordered" because the question is in the present and...

Hi Bokeh, Becasue of your reply, it made me take a second look at the original question. I also did some research and found this paper written on the subject of Semantic Composition of Subjunctive Conditionals by Michela Ippolito of MIT/Tübingen University. I am not completely sure if I...