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A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students
Paul Boucher
[Not in series 216] 2018
► pp. 83–100

Chapter 6
Tense and aspect

Article outline
  • 6.1Introduction
  • 6.2Tense and aspect: An overview
  • 6.3The pragmatics of tense
    • 6.3.1The time-tense relationship
    • 6.3.2Indexation versus contextualization
    • 6.3.3Translating the imparfait
    • 6.3.4The passé composé
  • 6.4Tense and genre
  • Notes
  • Further reading on tense, aspect and verbal constructions
References

Further reading on tense, aspect and verbal constructions

Banks, David
(ed.) 2009 L’Expression des temps et formes verbales dans le texte de spécialité. Paris: l’Harmattan.Google Scholar
Binnick, Robert
(ed) 2012 The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect. OUP.Google Scholar
Chuquet, Hélène
2003 “Loss and gain in English translations of the French imparfait” , In Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies. Ed. by Sylviane Granger, Jacques Lerot, Stephanie Petch-Tyson, 107–122. Rodopi.Google Scholar
2000 “L’alternance passé-présent dans le récit : contraintes de la traduction du français vers l’anglais”. Meta: journal des traducteurs / Meta: Translators’ Journal, 45, 2, 249–262.Google Scholar