Будущее время – отношение между темпоральностью и модальностью
Ruselina Nitsolova: The Future Tense: The Interplay between Temporality and Modality

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the Simple Future in Bulgarian, one of the four future tenses in this language. Presented are its formal characteristics and its semantic-pragmatic variants: the expression of intention, promise, scheduling (as in timetables), prediction, order. The relations between grammatical subject and speaker are also examined. Special attention is paid to the unexplored problem of the differences between natural and linguistic ontology: the future tense can refer to both non-factual (irreal) future activities conceived by the speaker as factual, and in specific contexts to ontologically factual activities (most often past). Less common is the case of the future tense presenting as non-factual (possible or necessary) factual activities in order to express the speaker’s attitude.

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