Universal #1396

Legacy number: 1396

 Number  1392
 Original  Deletion of past tenses in non-initial (or non-final) verbs of conjunctive series implies deletion of future tenses in the same environment.
 Standardized  IF there is deletion of past tenses in non-initial (or non-final) verbs of conjunctive series, THEN there is deletion of future tenses in the same environment.
 Keywords  order, tense, past, future, conjunctive
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  sample of 50 languages in Ultan 1972, Ultan 1978a
 Source  Ultan 1972, Ultan 1978a: 96

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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006