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Universal 1272:
- Original
- Categories which are used like the English pluperfect will tend to be nondistinct from remote past.
- Standardized
- IF categories are used like the English pluperfect, THEN they will tend to be nondistinct from remote past.
- Keywords
- tense, aspect, remote past
- Domain
- inflection
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 75 languages in Dahl 1984, sample of 64 languages in Dahl 1985
- Source
- Dahl 1984: 114, Dahl 1985: 144-9
- Counterexamples
