Re: Prevli: more "mood" names?

Isn't "going to" simply called the immediate or the near future tense?
That's what I remember from grammar lessons in school, and also what I
was taught to call "aller à" and "andare a(d)" in French and Italian
respectively.

Eugene

2007/10/28, Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...>:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:26:12 -0400, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
>
> >Are there accepted names for 'about to....' (punctual?)
>
> I'd call that "prospective", the mirror-image of "retrospective"
> (a.k.a. "perfect").  It's a future event whose prequelae are already relevant
> (just as "retrospective" is a past event whose sequelae are still relevant.)
>
> Whether it's a tense or a mood or an aspect depends on the language.
>
> "Immediate future" might also be "about to"; the mirror image of "immediate
> past".  The closer to the present the event is, the likelier it is to be relevant
> at present; and the more relevant it is at present, the closer to the present it
> is likely to be.  So  if your Prevli's tenses have "degrees of remoteness", the
> closest past and closest future would be semantically very much like
> retrospective and prospective.
>
> >and 'going to...' (....?) ?
>
> Why isn't that just "future tense"?  If Prevli doesn't have tense, or if it does
> but "future" counts as a mood instead of a tense, this could still be "future
> mood".
>

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