Published January 1, 1998 | Version v1

The semantic development of old presents: New futures and subjunctives without grammaticalization

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This paper discusses cases where a future tense construction or a subjunctive construction has arisen from an old present tense, due to the development of a new present tense through grammatricalization.

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