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A concept-oriented analysis of future-time reference in native and near-native Hexagonal French

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2016

AMANDA EDMONDS ,
AARNES GUDMESTAD  and
BRYAN DONALDSON
AMANDA EDMONDS*
Affiliation:
Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour
AARNES GUDMESTAD
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
BRYAN DONALDSON
Affiliation:
University of California Santa Cruz
*
Address for correspondence: Section FLE, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Avenue Doyen Poplawski, BP 1160, 64013 Pau, France e-mail: amanda.edmonds@univ-pau.fr
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Abstract

This study examined how native and near-native speakers of Hexagonal French make reference to future events in a corpus of informal conversations. A concept-oriented analysis reveals that no fewer than 13 different finite verb forms appeared in future-time contexts. A qualitative analysis of the use of the present in future-time contexts in the two portions of the corpus points to similarities in the native-speaker and near-native-speaker use. This analysis contributes to the understanding of future-time expression in Hexagonal French and to discussions concerning near-nativeness in second language acquisition.

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Journal of French Language Studies , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , November 2017 , pp. 381 - 404
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