Universal grammar
A long time ago, in the early 1970s, a fellow had a book with a kind of
universal grammar, describing what is common to language specific
grammars. For example, it would classify the tense of verbs according to
point of time and temporal direction: past, present, future, thus giving
nine possibilities, noting that Turkish(?) is one of the few languages
having the "future future" tense.
What book might this have been? Are there similar, more contemporary references?
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Hans Aberg
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