Japanese does all of its complex tenses by compounding verbs together There's a good-sized appendix in the back of my Japanese intermediate grammar book full of auxiliary verbs that you can append to another verb to modify its action, and you can more or less tack on as many as you want. (The number of combinations of the four giving verbs alone is kind of daunting.) There's also a whole big group of nouns and pseudonouns that get attached to the ends of verbs in order to show markings that you might have been missing just from the aux-verbs.
That said, I've been sitting here trying to think how to express future perfect in Japanese using only verbs and not coming up with a way I'm sure will work--most things I think of just use simple imperfective with adjectival time-markers. :)
Re: My pitiful Japanese-related contribution
There's a good-sized appendix in the back of my Japanese intermediate grammar book full of auxiliary verbs that you can append to another verb to modify its action, and you can more or less tack on as many as you want. (The number of combinations of the four giving verbs alone is kind of daunting.) There's also a whole big group of nouns and pseudonouns that get attached to the ends of verbs in order to show markings that you might have been missing just from the aux-verbs.
That said, I've been sitting here trying to think how to express future perfect in Japanese using only verbs and not coming up with a way I'm sure will work--most things I think of just use simple imperfective with adjectival time-markers. :)
Re: My pitiful Japanese-related contribution
Erk. I meant "adverbial".