Re: Immediate future tense
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 6, 1998, 5:37 |
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On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 19:48:09 -0800, Keenan <makeenan@...> wrote:
>I'm currently trying to de-anglicise Ok, another list inspired activity.
>Ok, for anyone who has looked at it, certainly doesn't look like English
>but, it translates word for word and I've decided to change that.
>
>to whit: the immediate future tense. An action that hasn't happened yet
>but is at the point of being performed right now.
>
>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
The original version of Eklektu has an aspect marker, "be", which means =
"to
begin doing", which is similar to what you describe as the immediate =
future
tense; Mega-Eklektu uses the word "le" (borrowed from Chinese) for this
purpose among others. ("Le" in old Eklektu was only used as a perfective
aspect marker.)
Jarrda has a future repetitive tense (actually a combination of an aspect
morpheme "-rr" and a tense morpheme "-ue"), which would be used for =
actions
performed habitually in the future.