WOULD THE FUTURE DISAPPEAR FROM OUR FUTURE? CONTEXTUAL DESCRIPTION OF THE FUTURE TENSE USE AND ITS ‘SEMANTIC DERIVATIVES’ IN SPOKEN FRENCH Cover Image

LE FUTUR DISPARAÎTRAIT-IL DE NOTRE AVENIR ? DESCRIPTION CONTEXTUELLE DE L'EMPLOI DU FUTUR ET DE SES « DÉRIVÉS SÉMANTIQUES » EN FRANÇAIS PARLÉ
WOULD THE FUTURE DISAPPEAR FROM OUR FUTURE? CONTEXTUAL DESCRIPTION OF THE FUTURE TENSE USE AND ITS ‘SEMANTIC DERIVATIVES’ IN SPOKEN FRENCH

Author(s): Sophie Brault-Scappini
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: simple future; periphrastic future tense; present; corpus; context;

Summary/Abstract: This article studies, from real occurrences of a body of spoken French, the competition between the two forms of the future: the simple future and the periphrastic future tense.

  • Issue Year: XVI/2020
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 13-22
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French