Lingua Frakas...TMA (tenses,mood & aspects)

In a message dated 2000/05/14 02:01:32 PM, Ray wrote:

>The older division, preseved in the
>Germanic languages and very largely in ancient Greek is between past &
>non-past (like the pairs of examples of south west England English dialect
>I gave in my last email).
    So far, most of the pidgins & creoles I have been looking at have a
division of past & non-past, too. Maybe this is part & parcel of the tendency
of pidgins/creoles to reduce & simplify... ::deep in thought, reassessing
Lingua Frakas' tenses::