[I was unable to get to this for a while. And I also wanted to make
some time for reading.]
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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "aquila_grande" <aquila_grande@...>
wrote:
>
> I have read that in the Inuit language, an unmarked verb denotes
> preterite if there is not anything else in the sentense denoting
> another time.
I don't think that this applies to verbs denoting state.
To be explicit: 'past marker' applies to also states, habituals and
such. So it is a form that is used
to translate each of the following:
(1) John made a chair
(2) John walked
(3) John walked a mile every day last year.
(4) John knew that.
Nath Rao