This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring
expressions, including will sentences, be going to sentences, and
futurates. While there exists previous work on future-referring
expressions, this is the first treatment of such a variety of
expressions in a formal semantic framework. Arguments presented
herein explicate the meanings of these expressions, and account for
similarities and differences among them. Shared is a
future-oriented model with a systematic alternation between
inertial and bouletic ordering sources that provide a new way of
understanding the age-old future Law of the Excluded Middle,
evident in all of the future-referring expressions. A difference
found among these meanings is the presence or absence of
progressive- or generic-like aspect in a position higher than the
future modal. These very high aspectual operators affect the
temporal argument of the modal's accessibility relation, with
detectable effects that can be used to determine scope relations in
future conditionals. Copley's analysis thus addresses a number of
issues of great interest to formal semanticists, from modal and
aspectual semantics, to the mapping of functional elements in the
clause, to the logical form of conditionals.
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