Universal 476:
- Original
- There are never more tense distinctions in progressive than in non-progressive.
- Standardized
- IF there are tense distinctions in progressive, THEN there will be as least as many tense distinctions in non-progressive.
- Keywords
- tense, aspect, progressive, non-progressive
- Domain
- inflection
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Blansitt 1975
- Source
- Blansitt 1975: 30
- Counterexamples
