Das Zusammenspiel der Verbalkategorien und die französischen Futura

Taking French as an example and drawing on a sophisticated model of category interaction, this study undertakes to demonstrate that linguistically conveyed futurity is primarily grounded not in modality but in perfectivity. Distinctions over and against other domains of temporal reference can be traced back to this tendency toward mono-aspectuality. Language comparisons suggest that this may be a feature common to various languages and may also be substantiated in pragmatic terms.