BE GOING TO AND BE ABOUT TO: JUST BECAUSE DOC BROWN WAS GOING TO TAKE US BACK TO THE FUTURE DOES NOT MEAN THAT HE WAS ABOUT TO DO SO

The aim of this paper is to explain, from a systematic and unified point of view, the following two facts: (i) sentences containing be going to (be going to-sentences) can easily go with adverbials of future time reference such as tomorrow, while sentences containing be about to (be about to-sentenc...

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Veröffentlicht in:	ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 2000, Vol.17(2), pp.386-416
1. Verfasser:	WADA, NAOAKI
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	adverbials of future time be about to be going to narrative texts temporal structure
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