Unconventional Use of IMPARFAIT DE L’INDICATIF in French
Abstract
The article deals with the problem of the non-standard use of Imparfait de l'indicatif, that is one of the most common tenses in French language. The study is based on the following methods of language analysis: descriptive, comparative-historical, comparative and stylistic ones. A brief review of scientific approaches within the framework of the theory of ultimate verbs is proposed in order to consider Imparfait de l'indicatif not as a result of the displacement of passé simple in literary speech, but as a new grammatical form characterized by an unprecedented semantic connotation. An attempt has been undertaken to analyze the stylistic use of Imparfait de l'indicatif sentence according to the lexico-grammatical and syntactic aspects of the stud. As the language is an instrument of our cognition stylistics is a special cognitive aspect of the language, covering both the field of vocabulary and the grammar one. Therefore, we can consider a number of grammatical phenomena and forms, including Imparfait de l'indicatif, in view of stylistic analysis. It is possible to differentiate some temporal variations in literary and colloquial languages. The study is of an applied nature, but its results will help us to understand the origin of Imparfait de l’indicatif in the history of French grammar, clarify some features of the use of grammatical forms of this tense in the modern language, and, perhaps, encourage linguists to further research.
About the Author
V. V. Zviagintseva
Southwest State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Victoria V. Zviagintseva, Cand. of Sci. (Philological)
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50 let Oktyabrya 94
Kursk
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Zviagintseva V.V. Unconventional Use of IMPARFAIT DE L’INDICATIF in French. Proceedings of the Southwest State University. Series: Linguistics and Pedagogy. 2022;12(4):17-25. (In Russ.)
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