Re: "Anticipatory" Tense
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 2, 2002, 19:57 |
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* Tim May said on 2002-03-02 20:37:36 +0100
> I can see it being useful to refer to a future event relative
> to the time being discussed (which is in the past or future),
> but I'm not sure I can see its usefulness in the present. A
> present state can't result from a future action one under normal
> circumstances, after all.
Oh? If you're going from X to Y via Z, and are presently at Z, won't
this be due to later (hopefully) being in Y? (planning to be in Y?)
t.
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