... In English, future tense forms arenot built by means of a special suffix but by means of the present tense of one of the auxiliaries will or shall (the latter in the first person only) or of the ... are other expres-sions referring to the possible actualization of a situation in the post-present.However, they differ from the future tense in that, even in the absence of futuretime adverbials, ... Inthis chapter, we examine the fourth absolutetense, viz. the future tense. We also considerother verb forms that have an element of futuretime reference as part of their semantics.In section...