Re: "Anticipatory" Tense

Ian Maxwell writes:
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > 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".


Yes, that's correct - the present perfect is 'I have walked'.  But
what I meant by "paraphrase" was to express this idea without using
the perfect formation 'have'.  That is, to express it as I might if
English lacked a perfect, as it lacks a prospective.  My apologies, if
I was unclear.

Something like 'I am in a state resulting from the fact that I walked'
or 'I walked, and this is relevant' comes close, but I don't feel that
they capture the essence of it.  They're hardly "drop-in replacements"
for 'I have walked'.