la generación de tiempo y aspecto en inglés y español

Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansillanocimiento por parte del hablante sobre si la situación predicada se mantiene o no en el mundoactual. Esto se aprecia claramente en el siguiente ejemplo obtenido de las muestras:(24) She wished to know whether the descendants of the trout that used to inhabit the pondinhabited it now.Aquí el sujeto expresa de manera abierta su ignorancia acerca de si la situación predicadase mantiene en el presente, lo cual es suficiente para desencadenar la selección de used to. Peropor lo general, tal y como he podido apreciar a partir de los ejemplos hallados en las muestras,en la mayoría de los casos en los que se selecciona la forma used to existe un deseo porparte de hablante de indicar que la propiedad predicada realmente no se mantiene en el presente,como se aprecia en los siguientes ejemplos de las muestras:(25) But it is universally accepted outside the ruling party that there is no question of a returnto the golden days of 1980 and earlier elections, when Congress used to scoop up four-fifths ofthe seats.(26) Regional pride, the growth of language and caste-based movements, suspicion of theHindi-speaking north, have eroded the support which national parties used to enjoy.(27)So that you don’t -you don’t really need -No. -to leave spaces -used to leave spaces !(28) These are not as hot as they usually are are they? -No. -I thought they were right mild. -Imean you used to be able to go ah!(29) When my children were very small we used to live on the outskirts of Richmond Park,where every day I used to take my eldest child for a walk, and it was here that I first began tocollect horse mushrooms.(30) I used to think: These are the deepest feelings I shall ever experience; this is the closestwe shall ever approach.(31) I work in a newspaper that used to be male dominated and now I would say three quartersof the wo , three quarters of the people on the news desk are now women.456