The Special Implicatures of Optional Past Tense: The Tlingit Decessive and ‘Discontinuous Past’ 1. Introduction Many languages contain a morpheme that appears to combine the meaning of past tense with a number of add

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• Parts of speech
• Indigenous languages of Alaska
• Na-Dene languages
• Inference
• Pragmatics
• Tlingit language
• Discontinuous past
• Verb
• Past tense
• Implicature
• Grammatical tense
• Perfect