Publications
Publication details [#23806]
Labelle, Marie. 1987. L'utilisation des temps du passé dans les narrations françaises: le passé composé, l'imparfait et le présent historique. Revue Romane 22 (1) : 3–29.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
French
Keywords
Journal WWW
Annotation
The use of french past tenses is not to be explained by the notions of background and foreground, but by their function as theme or 'propos' of the utterance in which they occur.