Re: Immediate future tense

Steg Belsky wrote:

>
> 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.
> *****
> ziizoi- = habitual future (what you were looking for)
> *****
> 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".
>
Steg, you have a fertile, facile, and ingenious mind.  :) I struggled so
hard to come up with my two simple little tenses. I figured it had
probably been done before. But I didn't think anyone had come up with
all you have. :)

Someone on this list used a metaphor once on how they worked on their
conlang like it was a house and, when they were finished, they looked up
from their work and saw that while they were busy someone had built a
mansion next door. hmmmmmmm I kinda know that feeling. ;)

Xto,
-Duke Keenan