Expressing the Same by the Different

The subjunctive vs the indicative in French

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Igor Dreer | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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This volume offers an alternative, sign-oriented analysis of the distribution of the French Indicative and Subjunctive. It rejects both government and functions, attributed to both moods, and shows that the distribution of the Indicative and the Subjunctive is motivated by their invariant meanings. The volume illustrates the close interaction between the Indicative and the Subjunctive, as linguistic signs, and signs of other grammatical systems, contextually associated with the invariant meanings of both moods. Special consideration is given to the use of the Indicative and the Subjunctive in texts of different styles and genres.

This volume also deals with the diachronic disfavoring of the Subjunctive and especially of the Imperfect Subjunctive that occurred from Old French to Contemporary French. It is argued that this disfavoring was motivated by the narrowing of the invariant meaning of the Contemporary French Subjunctive. All hypotheses are supported by contextualized examples and frequency counts.

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Dreer, Igor
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Eisenbruch, Miriam A.
2022. The subjunctive in Renaissance French. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 23:1  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Flaux, Nelly & Véronique Lagae
2014. Syntaxe et sémantique des marqueurs modaux : présentation. Langages N° 193:1  pp. 3 ff. DOI logo
Gosselin, Laurent
2016. Les modes expriment-ils des modalités ?. Lingvisticae Investigationes 39:1  pp. 143 ff. DOI logo
Lamiroy, Béatrice & Anna Pineda
2017. Grammaticalization across Romance languages and the pace of language change. Lingvisticae Investigationes 40:2  pp. 304 ff. DOI logo
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Winters, Margaret E.
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Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFK: Grammar, syntax

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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