Be to, grammaticalisation et ambiguïté énonciative

As the title indicates, this paper addresses the issues of grammaticalization and ambiguity, and the relation between the two, in the case of the be to construction.As a verbal periphrasis devoid of any lexical element, only to be found in the simple present and simple preterite (*be to, *being to,...

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Main Author: Françoise Lachaux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2012-11-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/198