Quelle rupture dans l’imparfait de rupture ?

• Authors: Joanna Górnikiewicz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

This article proposes a short analysis regarding the reference of the term de rupture used to name one of the rather atypical uses of the French past tense the imparfait. The author shows that the aforementioned term shouldn’t be considered as a generic one and describes all uses of the French past tense imparfait in which the receiver is directed to see the process as completed and / or having a different temporal reference. The term de rupture, even if its meaning changes depending on the approach chosen, is specialized as a parameter which enables us to distinct two major values of this unusual use of the imparfait. Actually, the latter is described nowadays most commonly as imparfait narratif and is considered as a carrier of various meaning effects.

Keywords

PL

imparfait, rupture, temporal reference, French past tenses

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Romanica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2014

online

2015-03-10

Contributors

author

Joanna Górnikiewicz