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Universal 1387: periphrastic past ⇒ periphrastic future

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Universal 1387: periphrastic past ⇒ periphrastic future

Original
Future tense markers may be less bound than present or past but never more so.
Standardized
IF future tense markers are morphologically bound, THEN past and/or present tense markers are also bound or indeed more closely bound.

Keywords
tense, past, future, auxiliary
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
sample of 50 languages in Ultan 1972, Ultan 1978a
Source
Ultan 1972, Ultan 1978a: 91
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    Cf. work by Stassen suggesting that if there is any verb-bound tense marking, then the basic opposition is present/past. See his Tensedness parameter, ##[ADD].

    1. May 2020

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