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John E Clifford, On 29/09/2012 13:31:
an axis displaced from the past axis as the future axis is displaced from the present (used for subjunctives in English).
Are you thinking of BE+TO in conditional clauses, or of something else?
*From:* MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@hidden.email>
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*Sent:* Friday, September 28, 2012 9:52 PM
*Subject:* Re: [engelang] Re: Xorban experimental tense markers
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:01 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@hidden.email <mailto:kali9putra@hidden.email>> wrote:
More or less an axis-and-vector system as in most natural languages (imperfectly), lacking retrofuture.
What is retrofuture?