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This document analyzes the verbal systems of Semitic languages like Classical Arabic compared to tense languages like French and aspect languages like Slavic. It argues that while Semitic languages have two main verb forms, one denoting simultaneity (iaqtulu) and one denoting anteriority (qatala), they do not truly have tense or aspect categories. Rather than denoting imperfective or perfective aspects, the two forms denote basic meanings of simultaneity versus anteriority. Their specific meanings in contex
- Author
- Chaigne
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- EN