Venir de (+ infinitive): an immediate anteriority marker in French

Jacques Brès; Emmanuelle Labeau

doi:10.1075/dia.32.4.03bre

Venir de (+ infinitive): an immediate anteriority marker in French

Jacques Brès, Emmanuelle Labeau^*

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Abstract

This paper deals with the grammaticalization of venir into aspectual auxiliary of immediate anteriority, against the traditional approach (Gougenheim 1929/1971) according to which venir de + inf., would express recent past and so would be a temporal auxiliary. On the basis of the (revised) Reichenbachian model, it shows that venir de + inf. bears upon the relationship between R and E (aspect) and not on the relationship between R and S (time). This analysis allows explain why venir, in this periphrasis, is defective (i.e. why venir cannot be conjugated in the passé simple or in any compound tense).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	530–570
Number of pages	41
Journal	Diachronica
Volume	32
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.32.4.03bre
Publication status	Published - Dec 2015

Bibliographical note

Labeau, E., & Bres, J. (2015). Venir de (+ infinitive): An immediate anteriority marker in French. Diachronica. Vol. 32, no.4, p530-570. https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/dia.32.4.03bre/details
© the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form.

Keywords

venir de + inf
aspectual auxiliary of anteriority
defective conjugation
grammaticalisation of movement verbs
recent past
immediate anteriority

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Venir de (+ infinitive): an immediate anteriority marker in French

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