The Semantic Domain of Prospective and Future in Hindi

Student: Zavyalov Pavel

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

The work is dedicated to the study of the prospective aspect in the Hindi language. A prospective is an aspectual meaning that introduces a preparatory state of a certain situation. The main aim of the work was to find out how native speakers express prospective, what are the relevant markers, and how wide the prospective-futural semantic scope in the studied language is. During the study, two constructions were identified and analyzed using various tests. It turned out that both constructs are prospectives, but they differ in terms of salience of the preparatory state. It also means that one of these constructions has advanced further than the other on the path of grammaticalization into the future tense marker. The most probable path of the diachronic development of both markers was also briefly described. In addition to describing the prospective itself, the paper also presents an analysis of the avertive construction in Hindi.

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