Etude morphosémantique dufuture en parlers grecs de la Bulgarie
Morpho-semantic study of the future in the Greek dialects of Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I investigate the properties of the future in Dialectal Modern Greek spoken in Bulgaria. Even though future has been described before, the analysis of its actual dialect use remains interesting for the Sparchbund and more generaly for typology. I will base my analysis on the aspectual model of Desclés [1980, 1990] & Guentchéva [1990] in order to explain the double aspect (perfective and imperfective) and its particular uses in Dialectal Modern Greek. I will argue that the use of future-referring periphrases (as θ па) provides evidence for the relation between future and modality and I will try to explain the link between future on the one hand, and possibility, probability and volition, on the other hand.

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