[Lingtyp] Co-expression of future and past

[David Gil]

On 13/12/2018 04:15, Hartmut Haberland wrote:
>
> On the other hand, German ’einst’ which can either mean ’a very long 
> time ago’ or ‘in the very remote future’.
>
Hebrew has a similar construction with /paʕam/ 'time' (as in 'This time 
he lost', not 'He has lots of time'), which can also mean either 'a long 
time ago' or 'in the distant future'.  I imagine this is a calque on 
either German or some other central European language.


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David Gil

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