[b-hebrew] tenses
Peter Kirk
peterkirk at qaya.org
Tue Sep 20 07:57:14 EDT 2005
On 20/09/2005 12:52, Ken Penner wrote:
>Peter wrote:
>
>
>
>>"Would" NEVER indicates future tense and never has done. This is a
>>mother tongue speaker telling you that, with support from
>>several other
>>mother tongue speakers on this list, as well as from reference books.
>>
>>
>
>I think this is stated a bit too strongly. "Would" is considered "posterior
>past" by Hans Reichenbach (Elements of Symbolic Logic, 297), the very man
>responsible for the event model constituted by speech time (S), reference
>time (R), and event time (E). Reichenbach's "posterior" is now generally
>called "relative future tense," in which R precedes E.
>"For the posterior past R-E-S the form 'he would do' is used, for instance
>in 'I did not expect that he would win the race'" (297). Reichenbach also
>gives "he was going to" as a substitute for this use of "would" (298).
>
>
It may be a "relative future tense", but that is not the same thing as
the future tense which Vadim keeps going on about.
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