What the present can tell us about the future: A variationist analysis of future-time expression in native and nonnative French
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2015
- handle: 10670/1.09ievy
- hal: hal-03063010
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
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future-time reference Hexagonal French L2 variationSujets proches
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Amanda Edmonds et al., « What the present can tell us about the future: A variationist analysis of future-time expression in native and nonnative French », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10670/1.09ievy
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This investigation studies the second-language (L2) development of variable future-time expression in French. One hundred and eighteen nonnative speakers at four proficiency levels and 30 native speakers completed a written-contextualized task (WCT), a language-proficiency test and a background questionnaire. The verb form (inflectional future, periphrastic future, and present) selected for each item on the WCT was coded for three independent linguistic factors: presence of a lexical temporal indicator, temporal distance and (un)certainty. Multinomial logistic regression tests and a follow-up analysis of high and low frequency of the present demonstrated that this form plays a complex role in native-speaker variability and is acquired late in contexts of future-time reference for nonnative speakers.