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All languages have a past, present, and future tense.

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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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Is it true that all languages have a past, present, and future tense?

Unclear. Several sources indicate that languages differ in their tense systems: some have only past/non-past, Mandarin reportedly has no tense, and one paper argues tense reduces to a past/present opposition. None of the placed items is a systematic survey settling the universal claim outright.

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Comparing Tense Systems: the Primacy of the Pres/Past Opposition
2004
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Borik, O., González, P., & Verkuyl, H. (2004). Comparing Tense Systems: the Primacy of the Pres/Past Opposition. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.7557/12.51

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Do most languages have the same basic verb tenses?
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Do most languages have the same basic verb tenses?. (n.d.). linguistics.stackexchange.com. https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/30279/do-most-languages-have-the-same-basic-verb-tenses

Contemporary Linguistic Parameters
2015
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Fabregas, A., Mateu, J., & Putnam, M. (2015). Contemporary Linguistic Parameters. play.google.com. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=ujjRCgAAQBAJ&source=gbs_api

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