Universal #1439
Legacy number: 1439
| Number | 1435 |
| Original | There is a correlation between the development of continuous tenses and absence of aspect differentiation. |
| Standardized | IF there is no aspect differentiation, THEN there are continuous tenses. |
| Formula | ¬ aspect ⇒ continuous tense |
| Keywords | aspect, tense, continuous |
| Domain | inflection |
| Type | mutual implication |
| Status | achronic but presumably diachronically motivated |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | unspecified |
| Source | Serebrennikov 1974: 304 |
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