Temporal deixis in narratives1
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This paper is about some peculiarities of temporal deixis (indicated in French by temporal adverbs like maintenant, aujourd’hui, hier, demain, etc.) in narratives, that is, either in sentences which clearly are narrative, because of the presence of the passé simple tense in French, or in sentences which express the subjectivity of a third person point of view through represented speech or thought ( style indirect libre), indicated by the presence of the imparfait tense in French 2. Its purpose is to give a general account of the co-occurence of a past temporal reference indicated by past tenses and temporal deictic adverbs which imply reference to the speech situation. Examples (1) and (2) are illustrations of such a co-occurence within a narrative sentence and within represented speech and thought:
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