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By [[User:Miaomiao Zhang|Miaomiao Zhang]] and [[User:John Ganaah|John Gannah]]

From the TC database Akan Future Aspect, there were two occurrences of FUT-FUT aspect as in the examples below:
<Phrase>6489</Phrase>
<Phrase>18501</Phrase>
From the two examples we can see that when there are two subjects in the sentence, the FUT-FUT occurs.
In other cases, where the FUT-CONS occurs,there is only one subject of the event described by the string of verbs.
<Phrase>10581</Phrase>
<Phrase>8930</Phrase>
<Phrase>9040</Phrase>
<Phrase>9028</Phrase>
<Phrase>8954</Phrase>
<Phrase>6467</Phrase>
<Phrase>369</Phrase>
We found a total of 16 phrases which had the token we sought to investigate.Below is a statistical occurrence of the Future Aspect in Akan SVCs from the TC database.

{| border="1"
|Aspect Type
|align="right" | Frequency
|-
|FUT-FUT
|align="right"|2
|-
|FUT-PROG
|align="right"|4
|-
|FUT-CONS
|align="right" | 10
|}
<ref> Boadi, L.A. (2008).Tense, aspect and Akan. In Ameka, F.K. and M.E. Kropp Dakubu (eds) Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages. Benjamins.</ref>
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