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Query Subject:	Ukrainian Future Tense
Author:	Stephan Hardy
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Linguistic LingField(s):	Syntax
Subject Language(s):	Ukrainian

Query:	Dear All, In standard Ukrainian, the future is formed with an auxiliary verb bearing number and gender agreement followed by the infinitive form of the main verb. I have recently come in contact with a dialect of standard Ukrainian (spoken in rural Manitoba, Canada) which is divergent in its formation of the future tense: it features the same auxiliary, but the main verb appears in the past-tense form; this means not only that it uses the past-tense stem, but it bears * number and gender agreement*. Is this phenomenon common to other slavic languages? Is it common to a language that would have been in contact with Ukraine in the 19th century? Yiddish has been suggested as possible contact language. I'm not a linguist; however, even if my question is of personal interest, I will be happy to provide a summary of the answers provided. Write to me directly at egerton@pangea.ca Thanks for your interest. Stephan Hardy.
LL Issue:	10.1593
Date posted:	23-Oct-1999
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