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Re: [engelang] Re: Xorban experimental tense markers

For which, retrofuture or subjunctive? mainly thinking of "would" in those occasional purely temporal uses for retrofuture and then for various subjunctive uses.


From: And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email>
To: engelang@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [engelang] Re: Xorban experimental tense markers

 
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>
> *To:* engelang@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Friday, September 28, 2012 9:52 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [engelang] Re: Xorban experimental tense markers
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> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:01 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@hidden.email <mailto:kali9putra@hidden.email>> wrote:
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> More or less an axis-and-vector system as in most natural languages (imperfectly), lacking retrofuture.
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> What is retrofuture?