Re: Verb terminology question
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 1, 2000, 6:28 |
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Matt McLauchlin tleisseiç:
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> My language has got three tenses (past, present, and future), each of which
> is supplied with four aspects. Those are: simple/progressive, indefinite,
> perfect, and... what? What is the correct term for an aspect indicating an
> event which is about to or has yet to take place?
There's no one term, we've had discussions on this before. I use
"prospective", but others have used "preperfective" or others that I
can't remember at the moment.
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