| From: | dunn patrick w <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 21, 1999, 22:16 |
Is there any natural language that has a relative verb tense? For instance, if 'eho means "speak" ne'eho might mean "I speak now." to'eho might mean "I spoke/will speak sometime within the forseeable future/past" ke'eho might mean "I spoke/will speak sometime within the historical future/past" In other words, not differentiating for past or future, but for distance form the present.