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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 (4)
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