The strong future tense.

The past and future of the past tense.

What is the interaction between storage and computation in language processing? What is the psychological status of grammatical rules? What are the relative strengths of connectionist and symbolic models of cognition? How are the components of language implemented in the brain? The English past tense has served as an arena for debates on these issues. We defend the theory that irregular past-te...

Future Tense and Economic Decisions: Controlling for Cultural Evolution

A previous study by Chen demonstrates a correlation between languages that grammatically mark future events and their speakers' propensity to save, even after controlling for numerous economic and demographic factors. The implication is that languages which grammatically distinguish the present and the future may bias their speakers to distinguish them psychologically, leading to less future-or...

Partial and paraconsistent approaches to future contingents in tense logic

Literature and medicine, future tense: making it graphic.

Hands on the future: facilitation of cortico-spinal hand-representation when reading the future tense of hand-related action verbs.

Reading action-related verbs brings about sensorimotor neural activity, suggesting that the linguistic representation of actions impinges upon neural structures largely overlapping with those involved in actual action execution. While studies of direct action observation indicate that motor mirroring is inherently anticipatory, no information is currently available on whether deriving action-re...