[Lingtyp] Intuitions about inclusive time reference

[Dan I Slobin]

The first thing that comes to mind, in English, is:
Mary was supposed to submit her grant today (and I wonder if she managed to
do it / do you know if she did it).

Dan

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 4:49 PM Siva Kalyan <sivakalyan.princeton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In English I would render this as “Today Mary was (going) to submit her
> grant proposal”.
>
> In (colloquial) Tamil, it would be something like the following:
>
> Mary *iṉṉiki* grant proposal submit *paṇ-ṟa-t-āka iru-nt-ā(ḷ)*
> Mary today grant proposal submit do-PRS-NMLZ-as be-PST-3SG.F
>
> Siva
>
> On 15 Feb 2024, at 7:29 am, Östen Dahl <oesten at ling.su.se> wrote:
>
> I would like to ask for intuitions about the following, in one or more
> languages that you are acquainted with.
>
> Suppose your colleague Mary said on Monday: "Tomorrow I'm going to submit
> my grant proposal." Now it's about noon on Tuesday, and you have no idea
> whatsoever of the time of the realization of her intention. Maybe she did
> it in the morning, maybe she'll wait until midnight, and maybe she's just
> doing it right now. How would you express the sentence below in your
> language(s), replacing SUBMIT by a suitable verb form? The idea is that you
> should try to use a maximally simple and natural formulation without
> excluding any possibility.
>
> Today Mary SUBMIT her grant proposal
>
> All comments are welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> - Östen
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