Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84, Intel Xenix Rel 0.1; site dssovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!qantel!intelca!dssoxnx!dssovax!mark From: mark@dssovax.UUCP (Mark Beyer) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Re: Slavic languages Message-ID: <326@dssovax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 11:41:35 EDT Article-I.D.: dssovax.326 Posted: Wed Jun 26 11:41:35 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:40:58 EDT References: <921@houxf.UUCP> <349@spar.UUCP> Organization: Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA Lines: 7 > 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 ?