A Brief History of English Syntax by unknow

A Brief History of English Syntax by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-28T00:00:00+00:00


6.3.1 The Future

PDE has no shortage of ways to express future meaning – witness the examples in (25).

(25)a The next guard arrives at 12.15. (BNC)

b I have to go. My mother is leaving tonight. (BNC)

c I've got some news for you. I'm about to sell the house… (BNC)

d Whatever you advise I shall do my humble best to concur. (BNC)

e Mrs Duncan will take you up to your rooms. (BNC)

f You're going to become a poet, Shih Hammond. (BNC)

The PDE examples represent a historically layered system. The simple present with future reference in (25a) – though today much more restricted in use – is an OE inheritance, as shown in (26).

(26) Ic arise of deaðe on ðæm þriddan dæge

I arise from death on the third day (ÆCHom.I,10(259.27)

‘I will rise from the dead on the third day’



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