tense in sign languages

Sat Oct 19 07:11:36 UTC 2002

A colleague of mine asked me to post a (perhaps naive) question to the
list:  Is there any sign language that unambiguously has grammatical
tense?  Apparently the case in ASL is somewhat unclear.  Thanks.

James Myers
Graduate Institute of Linguistics
National Chung Cheng University
Min-Hsiung, Chia-Yi  621
TAIWAN, ROC
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