Universal 1386:

Universal 1386:

Original

No language will exist where auxiliary does not potentially include tense; that is, in a sentence with tense and an auxiliary, tense will always be part of the auxiliary.

Standardized

The auxiliary always potentially includes tense; that is, in a sentence with tense and an auxiliary, tense will always be part of the auxiliary.

Keywords

auxiliary, tense

Domain

syntax

Type

unconditional

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

20 languages in Steele 1978, see Steele 1978: 18

Source

Steele 1978: 42

Counterexamples

In Hungarian, neither subject, nor tense-marking is attached to AUX in the conditional past (Hetzron 1980: 270).