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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2012  
         
  Article:   FOCUS ON THE PRETERIT / LE PASSÉ SIMPLE: MISE AU POINT.

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  Abstract:  Focus on the Preterit. The different elements that compose a definite language condense impressions belonging to human experience. Starting from Gustave Guillaume’s theory of language, the author tries to isolate those that compose the preterit tense in French as opposed to those that define the imperfect and the present perfect. He also underlines the reasons that led to the near extinction of the preterit in the so-called spoken French.

Keywords: Psychomecanics of language, French preterit tense, human experience, decline of grammatical tense. 

  
         
     
         
         
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