Relations entre temps, aspect, modalité et évidentialité dans le système du français

Caudal, Patrick

doi:10.3917/lf.173.0115

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“…19 The 'present ratification' is typically employed in contexts 18 As von Fintel and Gillies (2010) argue, having indirect evidence does not necessarily correlate with 'uncertainty' or weakness (as is the case in Karttunen's, 1972 account). 19 We note with Caudal (2012) that epistemic adverbs are incompatible with the 'present ratification use'. Our account explains this incompatibility by the fact that (i) these adverbs are always speaker-oriented and presentoriented (see above, Bonami and Godard, 2008;Ernst, 2009) and (ii) at the time of utterance the speaker has where notable facts are being presented.…”

Section: Epistemic Inference and Indirect Evidencementioning

confidence: 89%

“…It is now a common observation that the epistemic/non-epistemic ambiguity of modals correlates with the aspectual properties of the complement they combine with (see most notably Sueur, 1979;Condoravdi, 2002;Copley, 2002;Malchukov, 2009;Boogaart and Trnavac, 2011;Caudal, 2012;Giannakidou and Mari, to appear-a The same pattern is illustrated by FUT in French, most clearly by the future anterior.…”

Section: Breaking the Cross-linguistic Patternmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Devoir is unproblematic in this context, as it expresses conjecture ((7)). This shows that an inference-based account does not seem to be suitable for French ( pace Caudal, 2012).…”

Section: Disentangling Future From Epistemic Modalitymentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Let us return to the hypothesis that FUT denotes future verification and to a case that is acknowledged as difficult by de Saussure and Morency themselves. We label this the 'present ratification' use (this use is also called 'futur expansif' (Wilmet, 1976), 'futur de retrospection' (Wagner and Pichon, 1991) or 'futur de bilan' (Maingueneau, 1981;Caudal, 2012 (9)). In some other cases, the speaker knows at the time of utterance that it is true ( (11)).…”

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“…It is sometimes assumed that the belief is the result of an inferential process using indirect evidence (e.g. Giannakidou and Mari, 2013, to appear-a; for French, Caudal, 2012; a contrario Dendale, 2001). In this case, as we discuss at length later in the article, future sentences seem to be synonymous with epistemic devoir -sentences.…”

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confidence: 99%

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French future: Exploring the future ratification hypothesis

Mari

2015

French Language Studies

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The paper proposes a unified account of the systematic polysemy of French future (FUT) that does not uniquely rely on Aktionsart. It explains the predominant preference for the temporal interpretation of FUT, appealing to the ‘future ratification hypothesis’. This is a felicity condition that can be satisfied to different degrees and among competing interpretations the one that satisfies it to the highest degree is preferred. The paper also shows that FUT does not convey uncertainty at utterance time (tu), and can be used when the attitude holder knows at tu that the embedded proposition is true.

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Section: Epistemic Inference and Indirect Evidencementioning

confidence: 89%

Section: Breaking the Cross-linguistic Patternmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Devoir is unproblematic in this context, as it expresses conjecture ((7)). This shows that an inference-based account does not seem to be suitable for French ( pace Caudal, 2012).…”

Section: Disentangling Future From Epistemic Modalitymentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: 1mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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French future: Exploring the future ratification hypothesis

Mari

2015

French Language Studies

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The French future

Mari

2018

Human Cognitive Processing

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We propose a new analysis for the French future, which treats it as a modal-evidential, combining two perspectival points, a conjectural and a ratificational one, arguing that future signals an increment of information in time. Considering that future also contributes a relative tense, we explain a variety of uses also covering previously unexplained cases, in which the speaker has knowledge at the time of the utterance and still uses the future.Finally, our account could shed some light on cross-linguistic facts and most notably on the relation between the ratificational French future and the conjectural future in Italian, paving the way for a typological distinction between language types: 'conjectural future type' languages and 'ratificational future type' ones.

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Second language acquisition of evidentiality in French and English in a narrative task

Leclercq

Mélac

2021

LIA

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Evidentiality, i.e. the linguistic encoding of the mode of access to information (direct perception, inference, hearsay), despite not being fully grammaticalized in English and French, is expressed through a variety of means. This paper seeks to determine how a relatively non-salient concept in the source and target languages can be acquired by L2 learners. Using an oral elicited narrative task, we determine what markers of direct perception and inference are commonly used by native speakers of French (n = 10) and English (n = 10) and L2 learners of those two languages (at three levels of proficiency, n = 10 per group), and at which level they emerge. Our results point to a much more frequent use of inferential markers than direct perception markers, to slightly different patterns of evidential marking in French and in English, and to a late emergence of evidential markers in the speech of learners, who display sensitivity to their discursive functions, with types and tokens increasing as a function of proficiency level.

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Relations entre temps, aspect, modalité et évidentialité dans le système du français

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

French future: Exploring the future ratification hypothesis

French future: Exploring the future ratification hypothesis

The French future

Second language acquisition of evidentiality in French and English in a narrative task

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