Re: tense marking and typology
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 10, 1999, 8:58 |
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Tom Wier wrote:
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> [skip list]
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> ... not to mention some languages also have a "mythological past", for
> events so far back in time, no one really knows what to make of them
> for sure.
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Like Denden - the third preterite <-lei> PT3 is exactly that.
All there are three linear preterites, one linear future,
a present tense (marked with a zero morpheme, however), a
relative preterite and a relative future.
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt