Patterns and alternant structures for future time reference in Gallo-Romance: functional-systemic challenges for a grammaticalization account. KU Leuven
The central aim of the project is to investigate the alternation and competition between the use of the simple future tense paradigm (je chanterai), periphrastic future-marking structures (je vais chanter) and the future-signaling present tense (je chante ce soir) in the three branches of Gallo-Romances, viz. French (both the standard language and Northern French dialect varieties), Francoprovençal, and Occitan. Our database contains materials ...