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Tenses and legal dominance

Posted in Knowledge, Law, Lawyering on 3 April 2008 | No Comments »

In an Easter-flavoured post on Language Log, Geoff Pullum summarised the argument that the English language has no future tense.
The claim I’m making is not that reference to future time cannot be made in English; of course it can. And the claim is not that will cannot be thus used: probably over 80 percent of its occurrences [...]

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