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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Language relatedness a red herring (was: Sun Langu
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In article <19970204210301.QAA26268@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
AlexeiK <alexeik@aol.com> wrote:
>Bill Vaughan wrote:
>>>>Perhaps some Celtic scholar could
>tell us whether Breton has a progressive tense?<<<
>
>It does. 'Emaon o komz' = "I am speaking". All the modern Celtic languages
>have a progressive tense. In fact, Scots Gaelic no longer has the simple
>present at all.
>AK

If Scots-Gaelic no longer has a simple present, then what makes the "pro-
gressive" progressive and not just a periphrasic form of the present (as
it is in Welsh)?


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