The grammaticalization of the future tense forms in 16th century Romanian

Authors
Publication date 2011
Journal Revue Roumaine de Linguistique
Volume | Issue number 56 | 4
Pages (from-to) 421-440
Number of pages 20
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract The paper researches the competition between the various future paradigms in 16th century Romanian. It is especially concerned with the possibility of the extinct gerundial future to express aspectual features such as progressiveness and iteration. The article also investigates the process of grammaticalization of each 16th century future form, on the path from obligation to future tense (for the have form) and from future inflection to epistemic modality mark.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at http://www.lingv.ro/scm/reviste-rrl_archive-2011/rrl_sumar_contents_2011.mbs
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