Re: "Anticipatory" Tense
| From: | jogloran <exponent@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 2, 2002, 6:45 |
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Ian Maxwell <Ian_Maxwell@S...> wrote:
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So, I was thinking, since one of my conlangs already has a complex
Latin-esque inflection system, I might as well make it even more
complex. I decided to add, in addition to the perfect and imperfect
verb forms, an "anticipatory" form--for example, the first person
past anticipatory of "to go" would be "I was about to go", and the
first person future anticipatory would be "I will be about to go".
My question is, does a word already exist for this, or can I just use
my own invented word?
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Inchoative?