The objective of this paper is to present different approaches to tense treatment. Some linguists' basic approach is of a morphological nature. This paper suggests that an approach based on a ...time-referential criterion is far superior and focuses on the distinction between tense and aspect. Some linguists consider the perfect as an aspect. This paper rejects this idea and provides arguments in favour of the treatment of the present perfect as a tense by claiming that (1) a time-referential criterion is far superior to a morphological one, (2) current relevance (CR) is not an inherent meaning of the perfect and (3) CR is a phenomenon that arises from the pragmatics of linguistic or extra-linguistic contexts, lexical meanings of verbs and aspect and cannot be the property of any tense. Furthermore, for the present perfect and the preterite reference time is located differently. But when a tense is combined with the progressive aspect, the position of all three Reichenbach's points remains unchanged.
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