caa a22 4500 386328919 CHVBK 20180307111704.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022226700014110 doi S0022226700014110 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022226700014110 Haegeman Liliane Department of English, University of Geneva Be going to and will: a pragmatic account [Elektronische Daten] [Liliane Haegeman] In the literature on English tense usage, expressions of futurity such as (1) (a) I will/shall leave next week. (b) I'm going to leave next week. have already received a lot of attention, especially so in the pedagogical descriptive tradition of English linguistics (cf. Close, 1977; Haegeman, 1981, 1983; Leech, 1971; Quirk et al., 1985; Palmer, 1974, 1979; Wekker, 1976, etc.). Although these accounts are attractive, they raise further questions because most of them do not propose to deal with the problem against a formal theoretical background. As a consequence, the rules formulated to describe the use of shall/will or be going to in (1) tend to be intuitive and often do not really allow any decisive choice to be made in many instances of usage. On the other hand, Reichenbach type analyses of tense interpretation are usually mainly concerned with the general problem of tense representation and treat both examples in (1) as illustrations of future tense without detailed discussion of the contrasts between them. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Linguistics Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-09), 291-317 0022-2267 25:2<291 1989 25 LIN https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226700014110 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226700014110 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Haegeman Liliane Department of English, University of Geneva NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Linguistics Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-09), 291-317 0022-2267 25:2<291 1989 25 LIN CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge