--- raonath <
raonath@...> wrote:
> Second, grammaticalization theory suggests that the
> past is
> never umarked (see Bybee et al, "The evolution of
> grammar").
Many theories predict things that are false. Let's
imagine a language with the present marked with -i and
the past with -a; if later a>0 word-finally then the
past will look unmarked.
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