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Modal functions of future tenses in French
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Wales, M. L.. - : School of English, Media Studies & Art History, University of Queensland, 2007
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Abstract:
The paper disputes two influential claims in the Romance Linguistics literature. The first is that the synthetic future tenses in spoken Western Romance are now rivalled, if not supplanted, as temporal functors by the more recently developed GO futures. The second is that these synthetic futures now have modal rather than temporal meanings in spoken Romance. These claims are seen as reflecting a universal cycle of diachronic change, in which verb forms originally expressing modal (or aspectual) values take on future temporal reference, becoming tenses. The new modal meanings supplant the temporal, which are then taken up by new forms. Challenges to this theory for French are raised on the basis of empirical evidence of two sorts. Positively, future tenses in spoken Romance continue to be used with temporal meaning. Negatively, evidence of modal meaning for these forms is lacking. The evidence comes froma corpora of spoken French, native speaker judgements and verb data from a daily broadsheet. Cumulatively, it points to the reverse of the claims noted above: the synthetic future in spoken French has temporal but little modal meaning.
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2004 Linguistics; 380206 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics; 380207 Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar; 751002 Languages and literacy; 751004 The media; Diachronic change; Dialectology); E1; French; Future tense; Grammaticalisation; Lexicon; Modality; Phonology; Semantics)
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URL: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:12846/ALS_06LW.pdf https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:12846
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In: Ester, H 2005, 'The fable and necessity of the free press', paper presented at Australian Media Traditions Conference: Politics, Media, History, November 24-25, 2005, Old Parliament House, Canberra. http://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/comm-international/amt/PDFs/AMT2005Cryle1.pdf (2005)
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