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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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006