Re: THEORY: Tenses (was: Re: THEORY: ... Auxiliaries...)
From: | Adam Walker <carrajena@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, July 13, 2005, 21:55 |
--- Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> PS: I'm very sure Mandarin isn't the only example of
> languages lacking
> tense, or specifically future tense. I think
> Modern Japanese also
> lacks tense, while Old Japanese had a past
> tense. The -ta is
> perfect aspect as far as I know, or isn't it?
>
Indonesian doesn't have tense either.
Adam
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