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Discontinuous past

Discontinuous past is a category of past tense of verbs argued to exist in some languages which have a meaning roughly characterizable as "past and not present" or "past with no present relevance". The phrase "discontinuous past" was first used in the sense described here in an article by the linguists Vladimir Plungian and Johan van der Auwera published …

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Typology of discontinuous past markers

Creole languagesPluperfectÖsten DahlOneidaAkan
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Chichewa

ChichewaBantuMalawiMark Hanna WatkinsHodiernal
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Latin

LatinInfinitiveTanaquil
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Types of discontinuous past

ImperfectivePerfective
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Typology of discontinuous past markers

Types of discontinuous past

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Discontinuous past

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Discontinuous past

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related to Bibliography · 55
Discontinuous past → Andrea, Apr, Aspect, Auwera, Bantu Language, Berlin, Bernard, Blackwellde Saussure, British Central Africa, Cable, Cambridge University Press, Chichewa, Cisena, Citumbuka, Comrie, Dahl, Forsch, Germanic, Grammar, In Binnick
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Discontinuous past → Africa, Amazon, Atemporal, Auwera, Creole, In, North America, Pacific Ocean, Plungian, Such, The
related to Types of discontinuous past · 5
Discontinuous past → According, Auwera, Imperfective, Plungian, With
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Discontinuous past → category of past tense of verbs argued to exist in some languages which have a meaning roughly characterizable as, tense like

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past discontinuous tense tenses pluperfect used imperfective also english chichewa languages plungian van der auwera perfective language meaning present implication

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Discontinuous pastis atense like0.90text
Discontinuous pastrelated to BibliographyCable0.60section
Discontinuous pastrelated to BibliographySeth0.60section
Discontinuous pastrelated to BibliographyThe Tlingit Decessive0.60section
Discontinuous pastrelated to BibliographyMs0.60section
Discontinuous pastrelated to BibliographyUniversity0.60section
Discontinuous pastrelated to BibliographyMassachusetts0.60section
Discontinuous pastrelated to BibliographyComrie0.60section
Discontinuous pastrelated to BibliographyBernard0.60section
Discontinuous pastrelated to BibliographyAspect0.60section
Discontinuous pastrelated to BibliographyCambridge University Press0.60section

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