English Language and Linguistics http://journals.cambridge.org/ELL Additional services for English Language and Linguistics: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here Future time reference expressed by be to in Present-day English RENAAT DECLERCK English Language and Linguistics / Volume 14 / Special Issue 02 / July 2010, pp 271 - 291 DOI: 10.1017/S1360674310000080, Published online: 02 June 2010 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1360674310000080 How to cite this article: RENAAT DECLERCK (2010). Future time reference expressed by be to in Present-day English. English Language and Linguistics, 14, pp 271-291 doi:10.1017/S1360674310000080 Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/ELL, IP address: 205.170.15.169 on 25 Mar 2015