cross-linguistic variation
whilst english verbs anly have two distinct participial forms - the past participle and the present participle -many other languages, such as basque, armenian and lezgian, have several more. verbal categories such as tense and aspect can also be realized on participles: in lezgian there are past tense and future tense participles as well as participles with perfect aspect. (16) illustrates the future participle, a form of the verb 'play'