Re: dumb question about tense names

Quoting Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>:

> On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:16:40 -0500, Cian Ross <cian@...>
> wrote:
>
> > I presume I'm not alone in having a set of tenses that cover
> > past+present and present+future (in Veldan).  But has anyone come up
> > with a name for either of those?  I presume the answer is 'yes' and I'm
> > just not looking in the right places.
>
> Dixon gives "nonfuture" and "nonpast". I don't have my Trask immediately
> to hand, unfortunately.
>
> Apparently, a two way future/nonfuture or past/nonpast spilt is reasonably
> common.
Arguably, English's "present" tense is a nonpast - cf constructions like
"tomorrow I leave in the company of powerful friends".


                                                 Andreas