Prospectief aspect in het Nederlands | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
2004
Volume 28, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1384-5845
  • E-ISSN: 2352-1171

Abstract

Abstract

Prospective (also known as proximative, imminent or pre-inchoative) aspect presents some subsequent situation as imminent while underspecifying its realization. An English example is , as in ‘I am about to leave’. Dutch has several expressions tied to this semantics, including ‘lit. stand on the point: be about to’. This squib presents the first exploration of this type of viewpoint aspect in Dutch. Drawing on corpus data, I show that there are at least six prospective patterns in Dutch, and discuss (i) the source structures their prospective meaning derives from, (ii) the restrictions they impose on their complement, and (iii) their interaction with the perfect.

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