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The behavior of tenses in future contexts is quite peculiar. When a present tense is under the scope of a future auxiliary (will/would), the temporal location for events constrained by that tense is shifted forward. Although meet in (1) has present tense, the anticipated meeting events follow the utterance time.
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Abusch, D. (1998). Generalizing Tense Semantics for Future Contexts. In: Rothstein, S. (eds) Events and Grammar. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3969-4_2
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