The existence of a pure future tense in English is contested, and Langacker’s theory of Cognitive Grammar (CG) does not explicitly deviate from the standard view that English only has two real tenses, viz., past and nonpast. Prototypically, CG conceives of the semantic characterization of these tenses in terms of a timeline that is part of the so-called 'dynamic evolutionary model', in which the intervals representing the realm of 'known reality' (i.e., past and ongoing present) are attributed a special status with respect to their roles in the tense category. These ideas are part of CG’s 'naïve' view of the (English) tense system, which claims that the traditional way of looking at tense in the context of temporal reference is to be taken seriously, and that the central meanings of the past and nonpast tense should indeed be seen as indicating a temporal construal of propositions vis-à-vis a deictic reference point, the time of speaking, in terms of relations of coincidence or precedence, respectively.