RT Book, Section
T1 The Semantics of the Simple Future in Romance: Core Meaning and Parametric Variation
T2 La semántica del futuro simple en las lenguas románicas. Significado nuclear y variación paramétrica
A1 Escandell Vidal, María Victoria
A2 Baranzini, Laura
A2 De Saussure, Louis
AB In this paper two sets of questions are addressed: i) Is it there a common meaning for the simple future in Romance? How can it be described?; and ii) What is the source of cross-linguistic variation? Are there limits to possible variation?Assuming that verbal tenses are procedural, I suggest that the meaning of the simple future has two layers: a core meaning encoding the instruction to represent a situation not accessible from the discourse situation; and a set of parameters.The shared semantic core explains why the future tense is a natural semantic class, whereas parameters account for both cross-linguistic diversity and language change. The existence of a restricted set of parameters constrains the range of possible systems.
PB Brill
SN 978-90-04-46585-5 
SN 978-90-04-46818-4 
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99090
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99090
LA eng
NO Baranzini, Laura, y Louis De Saussure. Aspects of Tenses, Modality, and Evidentiality. BRILL, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468184.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025