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Alieva, Natalia F. – 2001
This paper examines whether there is a grammatical category of tense in the Indonesian/Malay language (IML), suggesting that IML has a syntactical category of tense that serves to grammaticize time relations in a clause predicate which is not necessarily verbal. The discussion takes a systemic view of grammatical categories in an analytical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Indonesian, Indonesian Languages
