Re: "Anticipatory" Tense
| From: | Ian Maxwell <ian_maxwell@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 4, 2002, 23:20 |
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From: "Tim May" <butsuri@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, 04 March, 2002 14.37
Subject: Re: "Anticipatory" Tense
> I think the main problem is that I can't find a suitable way to
> paraphrase the present perfect, and so can't make a future
> equivalent.
If I'm not mistaken, the present perfect is "I have walked" or "I walked",
compared to the past perfect "I had walked".
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