NOTES SUR L’ÉTYMOLOGIE ET LA LA MORPHOSYNTAXE DES FORMES DE FUTUR ET DE CONDITIONNEL DANS LES LANGUES ROMANES
Observations on the Etymology and Morphosyntax of the Future and Conditional Forms in Romance Languages

Summary/Abstract: This study proposes a brief inventory of the etymological and especially morpho-syntactic data characteristic for the Future Tense and Conditional verbal paradigms in three of the most important linguistic systems of the former Western Roman Empire, where one can notice the “canonization” of synthetic forms resulting through the grammaticalization of the Latin circumlocution CANTARE HABEO (for the Future Tense) and, respectively, CANTARE HABEBAM/HABUI (for the Conditional Mood), as well as their diverse analytic enrichment with temporal and/or modal values in spoken language. With regard to this description, the situation of corresponding forms in Romanian can also be discussed, as their marked etymological and morpho-syntactic complexity is due to the use of a large number of analytical structures both in the verbal paradigm of the Future Tense, and in the representation of the modal prospective.

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