Universal #571

Legacy number: 571

 Number  568
 Original  If both present and past tenses have completely identical stems, they must have means of differentiation.
 Standardized  IF present and past tenses have completely identical stems, THEN there are other means of distinguishing these two tenses.
 Keywords  persent tense, past tense
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Serebrennikov 1974: 304

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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006