Future orientation in adverbial time clauses in the Balkan languages
Future orientation in adverbial time clauses in the Balkan languages

Summary/Abstract: The paper reviews the possibilities for expressing events with a future time orientation in subordinate temporal adverbial clauses in Balkan languages by applying a corpus-based approach to analysis. In Albanian, Romanian, and Greek future time orientation can be expressed through a form morphologically marked for futurity, while in Bulgarian such meanings are expressed through form marked for present tense. The phenomenon is analysed on the basis of authentic linguistic material excerpted from language coprora.

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