Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
Future reference with and without future marking (Bochnak)
This week's paper was submitted by fellow conlanger and linguist u/priscianic and talks about future events and whether they are marked accordingly. Nevertheless you will be able to talk about any aspect concerning future reference and/or future marking in your conlang here! Let's move onto the prompts:
- How does your language encode that events will/might occur in the future?
- Is the morphological future marking used for anything else besides future events?
- Is there an overlap between simple future reference and modality?
- Is there any discrepancy between the usage of the future marker and the encoding of future events in general?
Remember to try to comment on other people's languages
Submit your papers here!
So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!