Universal #1390
Legacy number: 1390
| Number | 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 |
Discussion
Counterexamples
In Hungarian, neither subject, nor tense-marking is attached to AUX in the conditional past (Hetzron 1980: 270).
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