For future in the past, English uses _had been going to, was going to, was to, would_, but I was wondering which constructions you were referring to when you said "used for subjunctives in English".
John E Clifford, On 29/09/2012 15:26:
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> For which, retrofuture or subjunctive? mainly thinking of "would" in those occasional purely temporal uses for retrofuture and then for various subjunctive uses.
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> *From:* And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email>
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> *Sent:* Saturday, September 29, 2012 9:22 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [engelang] Re: Xorban experimental tense markers
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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).
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> Are you thinking of BE+TO in conditional clauses, or of something else?
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> > *From:* MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@hidden.email <mailto:lytlesw%40gmail.com>>
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> > *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%40yahoo.com> <mailto:kali9putra@hidden.email <mailto:kali9putra%40yahoo.com>>> 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?
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