ChronosyntaxeS

The sentence is generally considered by grammarians and linguists as an arrangement of units that can be modelled spatially, in the form of trees or topo-syntactic structures. However, from the point of view of speaking subjects, who experience utterances during the activity of speaking and interpreting, a sentence unfolds in time. The operative duration that elapses between the moment it begins and the moment it ends is that of the construction of its meaning. From this point of view, syntax can only be chrono-syntax.
Under the title 'Chronosyntaxes', this book encompasses several theoretical and descriptive approaches involving the time factor in syntax, and compares their complementarities and divergences. The various chapters focus on the meaning construction protocols of languages as diverse as French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, German, Guarani, Tahitian and Breton.