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- Discontinuous_past abstract "Discontinuous past is a category of past tense of verbs argued to exist in some languages, especially in West Africa and Polynesia, which carry an implication that the result of the event described no longer holds.In English the past simple tense carries no such implication; the sentence 'I put it on the table' could be used whether the object is still there or has been removed. But in some languages, such as the Bantu language Chichewa, the equivalent tense would carry a definite implication that the object in question is no longer there. In this sense a discontinuous past carries the opposite implication of a perfect tense, which in its main usage implies that the result of the action still holds: 'I have put it on the table (implication: it is still there)'.In terms of morphology, in many languages discontinuous past tenses are derived from the pluperfect tense. Another common source of discontinuous past tenses can be tenses which denote the remote past.Imperfective past tenses can also have a discontinuous implication, such as the English 'I used to live in London', which carries the implication that the speaker no longer lives there. One author uses the term 'decessive' for this usage.".
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- Discontinuous_past wikiPageOutDegree "9".
- Discontinuous_past wikiPageRevisionID "698955415".
- Discontinuous_past wikiPageWikiLink Bantu_languages.
- Discontinuous_past wikiPageWikiLink Category:Grammatical_aspects.
- Discontinuous_past wikiPageWikiLink Chewa_language.
- Discontinuous_past wikiPageWikiLink Imperfective_aspect.
- Discontinuous_past wikiPageWikiLink Past_tense.
- Discontinuous_past wikiPageWikiLink Perfect_(grammar).
- Discontinuous_past wikiPageWikiLink Pluperfect.
- Discontinuous_past wikiPageWikiLink Simple_past.
- Discontinuous_past wikiPageWikiLink Verb.
- Discontinuous_past wikiPageWikiLinkText "discontinuous past".
- Discontinuous_past wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Discontinuous_past subject Category:Grammatical_aspects.
- Discontinuous_past hypernym Category.
- Discontinuous_past type TelevisionStation.
- Discontinuous_past comment "Discontinuous past is a category of past tense of verbs argued to exist in some languages, especially in West Africa and Polynesia, which carry an implication that the result of the event described no longer holds.In English the past simple tense carries no such implication; the sentence 'I put it on the table' could be used whether the object is still there or has been removed.".
- Discontinuous_past label "Discontinuous past".
- Discontinuous_past wasDerivedFrom Discontinuous_past?oldid=698955415.
- Discontinuous_past isPrimaryTopicOf Discontinuous_past.