Conceptual content of functional-semantic category of futurality in modern French language
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Дрогобицького державного педагогічного університету імені Івана Франка. Серія: Філологічні науки (мовознавство) - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to present a functional description of the futuristic aspect and tense forms that comprise the conceptual, functional-semantic category of futurality in the modern French language. The objective of the article: to choose the semantic invariant of the future tense; to identify the means of expressing aspect and tense forms. In the course of the study, it has been concluded that the universal language category of the future which is expressed in simple future tense has broad semantic boundaries and a wide range of additional meanings. These include modal values (wish, imperative, necessity, obligation, etc.) that form the content component of the category of prospectiveness which is conveyed with the help of the present tense forms and the subjunctive mood. In addition, the limitation and fragmentation of the time interval are the notions of "close future", etc. These additional values are in relation of subordination to the basic categorical value of futurality. Futurality is the idea of an upcoming event (or events) that spans a certain period of time (defined or uncertain in the distant future). The semantics of futurality has a predictive nature, and its authenticity is not guaranteed. This category is a complex unity whose subject matter consists of relevant signs of a future outcome. As a rule, in Romance languages the category of prospectiveness is conveyed by verbs of motion or by modal verbs and phrases that express various shades of modality (will, aspiration, etc.), in particular, deontic modality. Thus, futurality is a broader source, a generic conceptual entity that covers a larger part of grammatical forms of the French language (Présent, Futur simple, Futur immédiat, Subjonctif, Conditionnel, Impératif) compared to the prospectiveness of the aspect whose grammatical composition is not fixed, and whose status more frequently intersects with the modal values of prospectiveness which are represented by means of the Présent forms.
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І. С. Кірковська
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