Re: dumb question about tense names
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 21, 2006, 6:54 |
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:16:40 -0500, Cian Ross <cian@...>
wrote:
> I presume I'm not alone in having a set of tenses that cover
> past+present and present+future (in Veldan). But has anyone come up
> with a name for either of those? I presume the answer is 'yes' and I'm
> just not looking in the right places.
Dixon gives "nonfuture" and "nonpast". I don't have my Trask immediately
to hand, unfortunately.
Apparently, a two way future/nonfuture or past/nonpast spilt is reasonably
common.
Paul
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