LE FUTUR : TEMPS DU PASSÉ OU DE L’AVENIR ? DESCRIPTION DE L’ÉVOLUTION DES USAGES DU FUTUR SIMPLE EN FRANÇAIS PARLÉ
THE FUTURE: PAST OR FUTURE TENSE? DESCRIPTION OF THE EVOLUTION OF SIMPLE FUTURE USES IN SPOKEN FRENCH

Summary/Abstract: The Future: Past or Future Tense? Description of the Evolution of Simple Future Uses in Spoken French: Alternating between Simple Future and Periphrastic Future. Speakers find it trendier and trendier to abandon the future tense for the benefit of periphrastic future in spoken French. These rather contemporary uses tend to demonstrate that the current uncertain period somehow forbids making real projects that fall in the future. Finally, it is recognized that learning the use of the future tense has known an evolution itself: school grammars speak henceforth about "future tense" and "near future".

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