Re: Verb terminology question
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 1, 2000, 13:49 |
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 12:29:46AM -0500, Matt McLauchlin wrote:
> 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?
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Maybe subjunctive? According to the linguistic terminology page someone
else has posted, subjunctive indicates "potentiality, uncertainty,
*prediction*, ...". Yeah, I know subjunctive is a mood, but I can't seem
to find an aspect with that meaning...
T
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