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Tense Evolution from Latin to French by yumingrui is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document summarizes part of a 1955 linguistic dissertation by Howard B. Garey on the historical development of tenses in French from Late Latin. It introduces the methodology that will be used, which analyzes the temporal meaning of utterances based on grammatical categories and contexts. It discusses how tense will be analyzed as sets of verb forms that contribute temporal meanings (chronemes) to clauses (allochrones). The analysis will examine verb sets diachronically across different periods of the
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- yumingrui
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