... clearfrom the use of the definite object NP that poem); the speaker is not concernedhere with NOW but with an aspect of the actualization of the situation thathappened THEN, viz., in these cases, ... he uses a sentence involving a verb of cre-ation he is not concerned with the fact that the referent has come into existenceand is now part of the structure of the world Ϫ this information is ... one of the aspects (when?, how?, who?, etc.) of the situation that ledto the existence of the referent Ϫ a situation which is necessarily seen as lyingentirely in the past and separated from the...