<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>English has a word for "yesterday", but not "past beyond yesterday". The same goes for tomorrow, and not "future beyond tomorrow". <br></div><div><br></div><div>I was wondering if anyone knows of languages with the opposite situation, i.e., ones that encode "past beyond yesterday" or "future beyond tomorrow" as lexical items but NOT "yesterday" or "tomorrow". For example, in this language, if you wanted to talk about "yesterday" you would have to say something like "the past except shesterday", where shesterday means "past beyond yesterday". Note that I'm talking about items that are temporally bounded only on
one side, and not, say "the day before yesterday" or "the day after
tomorrow", which are bounded on both sides.
</div><div><br></div><div>I'm mostly interested in cases where this item is lexical (roughly, free and optional), but would be keen to hear about cases where it's grammatical as well. In the grammatical case, this would be a system that has a pre-hesternal past tense, and a general past tense (which would implicate hesternal past, but the implicature is defeasible).</div><div> </div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Ponrawee Prasertsom</div><div><br></div><div>PhD Student</div><div>University of Edinburgh<br></div></div>
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