Time

1. Introduction
2. Basic axis
         a) Past
         b) Present
         c) Future
         d) Non-manual component
3. Anaphoric axis
4. Sequential axis
5. Other

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When expressing a process that started in the past and still continues in the present, LSC uses the time line with the thumb of the dominant hand going from behind the shoulder to the neutral space, in which the location of the present may be marked by the thumb of the non-dominant hand: "to have been doing something for a long time", or without explicit indication of the present: "up till now".

    "I have been working in the same company for 7 years."
    "I have been living in Vilafranca for a long time."