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From: mark@dssovax.UUCP (Mark Beyer)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: Slavic languages
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Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 11:41:35 EDT
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>                                               A major slavic innovation
>     is the perfective/imperfective aspect in most verbs, which denotes
>     whether an action is viewed as a single event or continuing over
>     time.

Doesn't French have an imperfect tense ?  Are you saying that they
got it from the slavic languages ?