Universal #274

Legacy number: 274

 Number  273
 Original  If in a language there is imperative mood and there are aspect distinctions in the indicative mood, then there are the same aspect distinctions in the imperative mood.
 Standardized  IF there are aspect distinctions in the indicative mood, THEN there are the same aspect distinctions in the imperative mood (given there is an imperative mood).
 Formula  aspect (Indic.) ⇒ aspect (Imper.)
 Keywords  verb, mood, imperative, indicative, aspect
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  see Vardul’ 1969, referring to Uspensky

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Discussion
Counterexamples
All the Romance languages have a perfective/ imperfective opposition in the indicative, but not in the imperative (Carsten Peust, p.c.)