Universal 1679:

Universal 1679:

Original

Anteriors (or perfects, which develop from stative auxiliaries plus a past participle, or from dynamic verbs such as ‘finish’ or ‘come from’) develop into perfectives or general past tenses.

Standardized

Anteriors (or perfects, which develop from stative auxiliaries plus a past participle, or from dynamic verbs such as ‘finish’ or ‘come from’) develop into perfectives or general past tenses.

Keywords

aspect, anterior, perfective, tense, past

Domain

inflection

Type

target < source

Status

diachronic

Quality

statistical

Basis

76 languages from the GRAMCATS database

Source

Bybee 1994: 244

Counterexamples