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Re: future past

From:Racsko Tamas <tracsko@...>
Date:Monday, June 14, 2004, 7:38
On 13 Jun 2004 Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@EA...> wrote:

> John Cowan wrote: > > Most future forms comes from things like will (I will go = it is my will > > [...] > > Don't forget purpose.
I'd add inchoatives, too. Hungarian adopts these to express future tense: both single verbs with inchoative verbal prefixes "meg-", "el-" etc. and future construction (i.e. auxiliary verb "fog" 'begin (archaic)' + infinitive).