Re: YSID
On 8 May, 11:51, netcat <net...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <KJApID.1...@xxxxxxxxxxx>, djhe...@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
As to tenses: Indo-European languages (all of them, AFAIK)
divide time into three boxes, past present and future.
Estonian, not being Indo-European, doesn't have a grammatical future
tense.
According to many linguists the Germanic languages, including English,
don't have a future tense either - see, for example, the Language Log
post at
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=897. ObSF: one of the
comments on that post is from Suzette Haden Elgin.
.
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