Genuinely tenseless: encoding time in Cantonese

Languages without overt marking of tense have been commonly analyzedas having covert tense, either in the form a phonologically null morpheme ora post-LF semantic rule. We argue that notion (neo-Reichenbachian) isnot only unnecessary for analysis Cantonese, but also falls short accountingfor temporal reference this language. Following Pancheva & Zubizarreta (2020,2021) on Paraguayan Guarani, we propose an Cantonese manipulatesthe parameter evaluation context lieu tense. A more generalcontribution line work is proposal not universal.