Valeurs temporelles et modales de l’imparfait avec application à des textes choisis.

Abstract

Temporal and moral values of the imperfect, with application to selected texts.

We have studied the imperfect in its two most important values.

1- Time value of the imperfect (real time).

2- Modal value of imperfect (unreal time) within this general scheme, we have made a subdivision. In the first part of our work, we studied:

- Chapter I -  situation of the imperfect in the French verbal system.

Chapter II- Semantic Values of the Imperfect.

- Chapter III-  The use of the imperfect in the literature "application on a choice of texts"

- In the second part, we studied:

- Chapter I- The particular uses of the imperfect.

Chapter II- Hypothetical and metaphorical truth.

- Chapter III - The different jobs of "if”