The linguistic Time: Absolute Chronology /vs/ Relative Chronology or Centric System (to) /vs/ Allocentric System (tl) in contemporary French Cover Image

Le Temps linguistique: Chronologie absolue /vs/ Chronologie relative ou Systeme centrique (to) /vs/ Systeme allocentrique (tl) en Français contemporain
The linguistic Time: Absolute Chronology /vs/ Relative Chronology or Centric System (to) /vs/ Allocentric System (tl) in contemporary French

Author(s): Eudochia Sevciuc-Volontir
Subject(s): Applied Linguistics
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: linguistic time; absolute chronology; relative chronology;

Summary/Abstract: The verbal forms of the French system are composed of two systems: the centric system of the speech and the narrative allocentric speech; one speaks about two types of chronologies: absolute chronology for which the reference point is in the present, on the axis Myself Here at the moment, the TO departing point and the relative chronology, the reference point is in the past or in the future, located on the axis Itself the Lower So, departing point Tl. Absolute chronology and relative chronology can coexist in the same statement.

  • Issue Year: XI/2015
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 65-74
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French