LE FUTUR DES LANGUES ROMANES: USAGES TEMPORELS ET/OU USAGES MODAUX?*
The future in the Romance languages: temporal and/or modal uses?

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims at describing the semantic duality of temporality and modality expressed in Romance languages by certain verbal morphemes, taking as an example the paradigm of the Future Tense. The final purpose is to highlight the main issues raised by its analysis both at the language and at the discursive level. Starting from the tripartite structuring of TEMPORAL, MODAL or, ILLOCUTIONARY uses, operated by Vet / Kampers-Manhe (2001: 89-104) at the level of the representative occurrences of the future tense in French, we firstly tried to perform a brief evaluation of the main parameters (aspectual, temporal, modal and, especially declarative, pragmatic parameters) used at each level of operation of the Future Tense. By expanding the area of examples of how this tripartite systems also operates at the level of other Romance languages such as Spanish, Italian and, especially, Romanian, we aimed at checking whether these parameters really are representative for all types of uses, in order to develop a coherent analytic model at an intra and interlingual level.

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