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Lemma  tense-distinction 
Categoria grammaticale  N 
Lingua  inglese 
Opera  Whitney (1875) 
Sinonimi   
Rinvii  tense-making (inglese)  
Traduzioni   
Citazioni 

[…] our tense-making is on the smallest scale, as compared with the infinite possibilities of tense-distinction. We have not even, as some languages have, a nearer and remoter past, a nearer and remoter future. That a thing was done long ago is as true a temporal relation as that it happened in past time at all; but we intimate only the latter by an inflection, and the former by relational words […].
- Whitney (1875), a pag.220

 
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