Maintenant : un cas de graminaticalisation? - article ; n°1 ; vol.130, pg 42-64

Annie Bertin

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Langue française - Année 2001 - Volume 130 - Numéro 1 - Pages 42-64
Annie Bertin : Maintenant : un cas de grammaticalisation ? Maintenant has a temporal-adverbial use, in which it introduces the moment of utterance, and a logical use as connecteur, where it expresses opposition. It thus seems to have evolved in a way comparable to or, which was used in Old French to refer to the moment of utterance. The first part of the paper shows that the semantic description of maintenant falls within the problematics of grammaticalization and that the evolution of the term can serve as an illustration of the central theses found in the research on grammaticalization. The second part is more descriptive and focuses on the uses of maintenant in Middle French, in order to describe the relation between the deictic value and the other temporal and logical values, and to oppose maintenant to or, following M.L. Oilier, so as to seize the difference between those two terms.
23 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

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• Publié par: LANGUE_FRANCAISE
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2001
• Nombre de lectures: 9
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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