The Semantics of the Future

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.

Bridget Copley is a semanticist affiliated with the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and Université Paris 8 as a Chargée de Recherche in the UMR 7023 "Structures Formelles du Langage."

Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Futurates Chapter Three: Futures Chapter Four: Conditionals Chapter Five: Conclusion References Index