Re: Prevli: more "mood" names?
| From: | Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 27, 2007, 21:05 |
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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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