Abstract
We briefly introduce a new model of French verbal tenses, where two complementary inflectional categories, tense and shifting, work together to locate facts in time. The category of shifting poses a reference point in the past or in the non-past. The category of tense locates facts in relation with this reference point. The core of this article is dedicated to the modeling of tense and shifting grammemes in the semantics-syntax interface of the Meaning-Text Unification Grammar of French. We also
discuss the question of grammatical idioms and collocations.
| Translated title of the contribution | Verbal tense in the semantic-syntax interface of French |
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| Original language | French |
| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory (MTT�09) |
| Editors | David Beck, Kim Gerdes, Jasmina Milićević, Alain Polguère |
| Publisher | Observatoire de linguistique sens-texte |
| Pages | 223-232 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9782981114907 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory (4th : 2009) - Montreal, Canada Duration: 16 Jun 2009 → 18 Jun 2009 |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory (4th : 2009) |
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| City | Montreal, Canada |
| Period | 16/06/09 → 18/06/09 |