<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear Sergey, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Yes there are, two of the relevant references are even up free online:</div><div><br></div><div>Dahl, Östen. 1985. Tense and aspect systems. Oxford: Blackwell.<br><a href="http://www2.ling.su.se/staff/oesten/recycled/Tense&aspectsystems.pdf"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">H</div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">ere's a link to a free PDF of Dahl (1985</div></a>)<br></div><br>Östen Dahl, Viveka Velupillai. 2013. The Future Tense. <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. <br><a href="http://wals.info/chapter/67">http://wals.info/chapter/67</a><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'm sure others will suggest lots of other literature here on this list, but I thought I'd tell you about these two right away since they're so easily available. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Here are two more very relevant references:</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div>Dahl, Ö. 2006. Future Tense and Future Time Reference. vol. 4. Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, ed. by Keith Brown. 704-706. Oxford: Elsevier.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> (might be freely available through your university library too)</div><br></div><br>Dahl, Östen. 2000. The grammar of future time reference in European languages. In Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe, ed. by Östen Dahl, 309-328. Berlin: de Gruyter<br></div><div><br></div><div>/Hedvig</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>____________________________________<br>Sharing is caring, if you stumble across something you think I might find interesting then send it my way. I do the same.<br><br>Please forgive me for any mistakes of orthography (especially Swedish and French diacritics), I try to answer as fast as possible and sometimes that results in less than optimal key board output.<br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-09-14 1:22 GMT+02:00 Sergey Lyosov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sergelyosov@inbox.ru" target="_blank">sergelyosov@inbox.ru</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#141823;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dear all,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#141823;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">could you please help me with literature references?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#141823;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Working on a description of the Akkadian morphosyntax, I have had an opportunity to observe:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#141823;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">“cross-linguistically, in the future-time domain verb forms more often than not do not have morphological means to oppose aspectual and modal senses, due to the non-real ontological status of the future.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#141823;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">It seems to me a commonplace, but is it? Are there typological reference works corroborating this claim?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#141823;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Thank you very much,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#141823;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Sergey</span></p><br><br></div>
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