Re: Immediate future tense
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 6, 1998, 1:30 |
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On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 19:48:09 -0800 Keenan <makeenan@...> writes:
>And possibly also: the habitual future. An action That will be
>performed
>habitually in the future.
>
>Do these tenses occur in any natlangs or conlangs on this list
>Xto!
>-Duke Keenan
Rokbeigalmki has a habitual future as one of the compound tenses.
It has five simple tenses:
zu- = past
zoi- = present-routine (habitual)
za- = present-immediate
zii- = future/hypothetical
ze- = imperative (yes, i know this isn't *really* a tense, but
Rokbeigalmki treats it as one)
Each of the "real" tenses have a hypothetical 4 complex tenses made by
doubling up the tense-vowels.
Complex Past tenses:
zuzu- = (unattested) possibly extreme past, "once upon a time"?
zuzoi- = habitual past
zuza- = past-immediate (not right before the present. it's a short period
of time in the past)
zuzii- = (unattested)
Complex Present-Routine tenses:
(none are attested except for- )
zoizoi- = perpetual
Complex Present-Immediate tenses:
(none are attested except for- )
zaza- = extreme immediate - "right now i'm doing this but in a second or
two i won't be doing it anymore". rarely used.
Complex Future/Hypothetical tenses:
ziizu- = a sentence like "i would have had eaten"...something
hypothetical which is now impossible, but was possible at some time in
the past.
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ziizoi- = habitual future (what you were looking for)
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ziiza- = future-immediate
ziizii- = a sentence like "i would eat if you would drive me to the
restaurant"...something hypothetical which is now possible. Sometimes
shortened to simple future. possibly also, although unattested, a far
future.
Also, the present-routine and present-immediate forms of the verb "to
be", _wa'tezat_, can be omitted. This is also considered a "simple
present".
-Stephen (Steg)
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