THE FUTURE IN THE PAST IN ANCIENT AND EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY ITALIAN (CONDIZ. PRES. VS CONDIZ. PASS.) AND IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN (CONDIZ. PASS.) Cover Image

IL FUTURO NEL PASSATO NELL'ITALIANO ANTICO E PRIMO-NOVECENTESCO (CONDIZ. PRES. VS CONDIZ. PASS.) E NELL'ITALIANO CONTEMPORANEO (CONDIZ. PASS.)
THE FUTURE IN THE PAST IN ANCIENT AND EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY ITALIAN (CONDIZ. PRES. VS CONDIZ. PASS.) AND IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN (CONDIZ. PASS.)

Author(s): Salvatore Claudio SGROI
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: future in the past; conditional present; conditional past; potential; assertion;

Summary/Abstract: The article intends to follow step by step the various Italian grammarians, but also foreigners, who have studied the evolution of the use of simple conditional and compound conditional for the expression of the future in the past, from ancient Italian to contemporary Italian.

  • Issue Year: XVI/2020
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 45-56
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Italian