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This chapter explores the connection between past tense and modality in English and French. After arguing for a temporal definition of past tenses, I reinterpret the classical opposition between temporal uses and modal uses in terms of the speakers's referential or subjective intentionality. I further distinguish between the epistemic uses - which express the speaker's assessment of the probability of the denoted situation - and the illocutory uses - which express the speaker's degree of commitment in her speech act. I finally suggest an analysis of two epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imperfect, namely their conditional use and optative use, thanks to the notion of dialogism, which refers to the heterogeneity of the enunciative sources of a given utterance.

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Situated within the long-established domain of temporality research in Second Language Acquisition, this book aims to provide an update on recent research directions in the field through a range of papers which explore relatively new territory. Those areas include the expression of modality and counterfactuality, the effect of first language transfer, aspectuo-temporal comprehension, aspectuo-temporal marking at a wider discursive level, and methodological issues in the study of the acquisition of aspect. The studies presented explore English and French as second languages, involving both child and adult learners from a range of first language backgrounds in both instructed and naturalistic learning contexts. The studies draw on both spoken and written data which explore various facets of the learners' second language comprehension and production. The volume offers new, but complementary insights to previous research, as well as pointing to directions for future research in this burgeoning field of study.

Language and languages --- Second language acquisition --- Interlanguage (Language learning) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- English language --- French language --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Modularity (Grammar) --- Module (Grammar) --- Aspect (Linguistics) --- Tense (Grammar) --- Language acquisition --- Languages, Mixed --- Second language learning --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Study and teaching --- Research. --- Tense. --- Aspect. --- Modularity. --- Grammar, Comparative. --- Verbal aspect --- Temporal constructions --- Verb --- Study and teaching&delete& --- Research --- Tense --- Aspect --- Modularity --- Grammar, Comparative --- Grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Englisch. --- Französisch. --- Tempus. --- Aspekt --- Modalität --- Fremdsprachenlernen. --- Germanic languages --- Language and languages - Study and teaching - Research --- Second language acquisition - Research --- Interlanguage (Language learning) - Research --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Tense --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Modularity --- English language - Grammar, Comparative --- French language - Grammar, Comparative