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Re: THEORY: Tenses (was: Re: THEORY: ... Auxiliaries...)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, July 14, 2005, 10:20
Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> On Wednesday, July 13, 2005, at 03:57 , Henrik Theiling wrote:
> > German also has > > one, although colloquially, present tense is a non-past tense now, so > > it can be used for future events, too. > > Much like English :) > I think this is possibly a common Germanic feature.
Is there any modern Germanic language that doesn't have this? Andreas