Universal 479: ¬past progressive form ⇒ ¬future progressive form
- Original
- There is never a special future progressive form unless there is a past progressive form as well.
- Standardized
- IF there is future progressive form, THEN there is also a past progressive form.
- Keywords
- tense, past, future, aspect, progressive
- Domain
- inflection
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages surveyed in Blansitt 1975
- Source
- Blansitt 1975: 30
- Counterexamples