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The Past Tense

by Östen Dahl and Viveka Velupillai http://wals.info/feature/66

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2 Responses to “The Past Tense”

  1. Tomás Boncompte Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    Greetings. I could not help but noticing
    that in feature 66, languages that have
    2 and 3 past tense remoteness distinctions
    are categorized together, and that those
    that have 4 or more form another category;

    Why not make different categories, then, for
    languages with 2 and 3 remoteness distinctions?
    (It does not make sense to me that 2 cases
    have a category of their own, and yet that
    the category inmediately next to that one is
    so broad)

  2. Martin Haspelmath Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 11:29 am

    This is certainly a possibility to consider. Probably the authors simply did not want to have too many values in the map.

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