1. May 2020 FP One Comment Universal 1387: periphrastic past ⇒ periphrastic future Posted in Universals Archive Universal 1387: periphrastic past ⇒ periphrastic future Original Future tense markers may be less bound than present or past but never more so. Standardized IF future tense markers are morphologically bound, THEN past and/or present tense markers are also bound or indeed more closely bound. Keywords tense, past, future, auxiliary Domain inflection, syntax Type implication Status achronic Quality absolute Basis sample of 50 languages in Ultan 1972, Ultan 1978a Source Ultan 1972, Ultan 1978a: 91 Counterexamples Previous Post nonesuch 13 Next Post nonesuch 1 FP View more posts One Comment FP Cf. work by Stassen suggesting that if there is any verb-bound tense marking, then the basic opposition is present/past. See his Tensedness parameter, ##[ADD]. 1. May 2020 Comments are closed.
FP Cf. work by Stassen suggesting that if there is any verb-bound tense marking, then the basic opposition is present/past. See his Tensedness parameter, ##[ADD]. 1. May 2020
Cf. work by Stassen suggesting that if there is any verb-bound tense marking, then the basic opposition is present/past. See his Tensedness parameter, ##[ADD].