Universal 1434: many tenses ⇒ ¬ aspect
- Original
- A large number of tense oppositions correlates with the absence of aspect differentiation.
- Standardized
- IF there are many tense oppositions, THEN there is no aspect differentiation.
- Keywords
- tense, aspect
- Domain
- inflection
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- Serebrennikov 1974: 303
- Counterexamples