Universal #1395
Legacy number: 1395
| Number | 1391 |
| Original | The chronological ordering of tense neutralization in a subjunctive or semantically comparable category is always unidirectional: the future-nonfuture contrast is neutralized first, the past-nonpast last. |
| Standardized | IF past-nonpast contrast is neutralized in a subjunctive or semantically comparable category, THEN future-nonfuture contrast is neutralized as well. |
| Keywords | tense, past, nonpast, future, nonfuture |
| Domain | inflection |
| Type | implication |
| Status | diachronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of 50 languages in Ultan 1972, Ultan 1978a |
| Source | Ultan 1972, Ultan 1978a: 95 |
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