The Urdu/Hindi perfective-based future

We explore the emergence of the Modern Urdu/Hindi -g- future, which is built historically from a combination of an imperfective-marked main verb and perfective-marked motion verb ‘go’. Given that both verbs are members of the finite tense/aspect subsystem in the linguistic system in which the construction is innovated, we suggest that this construction starts out as a combination of clauses which pragmatically gives rise to a teleological inference. It is this inference that, under certain assumptions, generates future reference.