Frontmatter -- Preface -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The reasons for the rise of the notion of opposition and the method of oppositional analysis. Oppositions as a manifestation of the plane of content of morphological forms -- 3. Oppositions, their history and nature -- 4. The invariant and distinctive features (DF) -- 5. The zero -- 6. The nature of oppositions in morphology -- 7. Neutralization of oppositions -- 8. Interaction of form (plane of expression) and meaning (plane of content) -- 9. The notions of microsystem, macrosystem, and system -- 10. Oppositions in the tense-aspect microsystem of the English verb (the application of the theory of oppositions) -- 11. Oppositions in the category of tense -- 12. Oppositions in the category of temporal relativity (perfectness) -- 13. Correlation of the members of privative oppositions in aspect (duration) -- 14. General correlation of oppositions and morphosemes in the tense-aspect microsystem. Recommendations for syntagmatic analysis -- 15. Summary -- Bibliographyweiterlesen