Universal #1684

Legacy number: 1684

 Number  1679
 Original  Anteriors (or perfects, which develop from stative auxiliaries plus a past participle, or from dynamic verbs such as ‘finish’ or ‘come from’) develop into perfectives or general past tenses.
 Standardized  Anteriors (or perfects, which develop from stative auxiliaries plus a past participle, or from dynamic verbs such as ‘finish’ or ‘come from’) develop into perfectives or general past tenses.
 Keywords  aspect, anterior, perfective, tense, past
 Domain  inflection
 Type  target < source
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  76 languages from the GRAMCATS database
 Source  Bybee 1994: 244

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Discussion
Notes
Implicationally:IF there are anteriors (or perfects, which develop from stative auxiliaries plus a past participle, or from dynamic verbs such as ‘finish’ or ‘come from’), THEN they are likely to develop into perfectives or general past tenses.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Implicationally:
IF there are anteriors (or perfects, which develop from stative auxiliaries plus a past participle, or from dynamic verbs such as 'finish' or 'come from'), THEN they are likely to develop into perfectives or general past tenses.