Re: Pronouns Marked for Tense/Aspect/Mood

Hello,

>         I wonder if there is any natlang that uses an
> irrealis form for all
> references to the future. Makes sense from a certain point of view...
Yes. There were examples from a couple of languages like these discussed
at a recent conference on irrealis I attended. Unfortunately, I seem to
have lost the handout, but there were languages which used the irrealis
for the future and the realis for the past, languages with realis :
irrealis = actual : hypothetical and even with a combination of these,
which only used the realis for past actual. Two of the examples were in
Australia and one of them was, I think, a language of the Cree.

Sorry for the faulty memory and crooked hands :-)

Hope this helps a bit,
Pavel
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