Escandell Vidal, María VictoriaBaranzini, LauraDe Saussure, Louis2024-02-052024-02-052021Baranzini, Laura, y Louis De Saussure. Aspects of Tenses, Modality, and Evidentiality. BRILL, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468184.978-90-04-46585-5978-90-04-46818-410.1163/9789004468184_003https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99090In 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.engbook parthttps://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468184_003https://brill.com/display/book/9789004468184/BP000002.xmlrestricted accessFilología57 Lingüística