Universal 1435: ¬ aspect ⇒ continuous tense
- Original
- There is a correlation between the development of continuous tenses and absence of aspect differentiation.
- Standardized
- IF there is no aspect differentiation, THEN there are continuous tenses.
- Keywords
- aspect, tense, continuous
- Domain
- inflection
- Type
- mutual implication
- Status
- achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- Serebrennikov 1974: 304
- Counterexamples
