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

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