The reorganisation of the tense, aspect and mode paradigms of French

TY - JOUR

T1 - The reorganisation of the tense, aspect and mode paradigms of French

AU - Kragh, Kirsten A. Jeppesen

PY - 2015/1/1

Y1 - 2015/1/1

N2 - My previous studies of the replacement of the imperfect subjunctive by the present subjunctive conclude with the proposal of a reorganised paradigm in which the original temporal distinction between past and present is replaced by an aspectual distinction, i.e. by an opposition between the accomplished and the unaccomplished. This change is interpreted as a type of regrammation in which new grammatical content is ascribed to an existing grammatical expression. In the present article, I propose to study how this regrammation conforms to the reorganisations of the temporal and modal paradigms of Modern French by testing the changes of the TAM paradigms as an instance of connecting grammaticalisation.

AB - My previous studies of the replacement of the imperfect subjunctive by the present subjunctive conclude with the proposal of a reorganised paradigm in which the original temporal distinction between past and present is replaced by an aspectual distinction, i.e. by an opposition between the accomplished and the unaccomplished. This change is interpreted as a type of regrammation in which new grammatical content is ascribed to an existing grammatical expression. In the present article, I propose to study how this regrammation conforms to the reorganisations of the temporal and modal paradigms of Modern French by testing the changes of the TAM paradigms as an instance of connecting grammaticalisation.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - connecting grammaticalisation

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0374-0463

VL - 47

JO - Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics

JF - Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics

IS - 2

ER -