The tense of punctual verbs as noun modifiers


I got a listening transcript (that has been cropped for the sake of
simplicity) as follows

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UVN2W.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UVN2W.jpg)

The context is about people who got (and still) married rather than people who
will marry or people got divorced.

As far as I know, 結婚する is a punctual verb (瞬間動詞) so got (and still) married
must be translated as 結婚している.

As you can see from the above screenshot, the book author seems to be
inconsistent (and probably wrong) as 「結婚する人] means people who will marry and
「結婚した人」means people who finished their marriage (literally it means the people
got divorced).

# Question

Am I wrong in this reasoning?




The statements in your picture have nothing to do with divorcing.

  * 結婚する人: people who get married
  * 結婚している人: married people
  * 結婚した人: people who got married (≠ people who finished their marriage)
  * 結婚していた人: people who were once married (people who have gotten divorced)

結婚した人 is interchangeable with 結婚している人 in most cases. 結婚している人 focuses more on
the current state ("married"), whereas 結婚した人 focuses on the past action of
getting married. But such difference is not very important at least in the
question in your picture.

To take another example, 死ぬ is also a instant change-of-state verb. 死んだ人 and
死んでいる人 are almost always interchangeable. Only in some special contexts the
former may mean "people who were resurrected after being once dead".




The statements in your picture have nothing to do with divorcing.

  * 結婚する人: people who get married
  * 結婚している人: married people
  * 結婚した人: people who got married (≠ people who finished their marriage)
  * 結婚していた人: people who were once married (people who have gotten divorced)

結婚した人 is interchangeable with 結婚している人 in most cases. 結婚している人 focuses more on
the current state ("married"), whereas 結婚した人 focuses on the past action of
getting married. But such difference is not very important at least in the
question in your picture.

To take another example, 死ぬ is also a instant change-of-state verb. 死んだ人 and
死んでいる人 are almost always interchangeable. Only in some special contexts the
former may mean "people who were resurrected after being once dead".

