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Universal 568:

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Universal 568:

Original
If both present and past tenses have completely identical stems, they must have means of differentiation.
Standardized
IF present and past tenses have completely identical stems, THEN there are other means of distinguishing these two tenses.
Keywords
persent tense, past tense
Domain
inflection
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
unspecified
Source
Serebrennikov 1974: 304
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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