| Lemma | tense-distinction |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Whitney (1875) |
| Titolo | The Life and Growth of language |
| 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 […]. |