Sémantique du passé composé en français moderne et exploration des rapports passé composé / passé simple dans un corpus de moyen français
Résumé
This article aims to offer new insights regarding the analysis and the history of the French passé composé. In particular, it reexamines the claim that this tense has become an aorist. The author begins by stating his vision of the passé composé's semantics, paying particular attention to its resultative property. The core element is the concept of factuality. Three types of factuality in discourse are distinguished, one of them being the experiential type (i.e. the "experiential perfect"). The final part of the article is an empirical study where the uses of passé simple and passé composé in P. de Commynes' Mémoires (Middle French) are compared. The competition between the two tenses in certain types of factual utterances is highlighted, as well as how set phrases have helped keep the passé simple in use.
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