ZNAČENJSKI EFEKTI INTERAKCIJE ASPEKTUALNIH INFORMACIJA U FRANCUSKOM JEZIKU

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to investigate the possibilities of combining different aspectual categories in the same sentence in French and the semantic effects resulting from such combinations. We examine the possibilities and consequences of combining the perfective and imperfective aspectual perspective, on the one hand, with four types of situations as carriers of the lexical aspect, on the other hand. The theoretical framework of the work is represented by the theory of two-component aspectuality. The research material consists of a corpus of examples mostly from the literary French language. It was established that all four types of situations, activities, states, accomplishments and achievements, can be combined with both the perfective and the imperfective aspectual perspective, with significant consequences on the semantic level since different meanings and semantic and stylistic nuances are generated. It often happens that the syntactic environment of the verb affects the change of the type of situation, so in the overall interpretation of aspectual meanings, the complements of the verb and sentence clauses must be taken into account. This paper sheds light on the complex issue of the combination of syntax and semantics in the French language, which manifests itself in highlighting certain phases of the situation or the entirety of its interval, and contributes to the clarification of not so simple questions for all those who teach and learn the French language.