Un autre cas de « régrammation »: le futur synthétique de l’espagnol
Another Example of ‘Regrammatisation’: the Synthetic Future in Spanish

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to illustrate the ‘regrammatisation’ process – by which we understand the reorganization of a grammatical and functional content within a grammatical system – of the canonical form of the Future Tense in the Spanish language, a process that is performed through the equivalence of this verbal morpheme by a whole range of periphrases (very different in meaning) and, especially, in tandem with the analytical and itive structure, ir a + infinitive. This process of grammaticalization (in the narrow sense of the term given in the literature) will lead to an almost complete modalisation of the synthetic form of the Future Tense in Spanish without cancelling its deictic and temporal occurrences.

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