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What Is the French Conditional?
Author(s) -
Daley T. A.
Publication year - 1942
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1942.tb06889.x
Subject(s) - misnomer , imperfect , mood , linguistics , history , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , theology
Author's summary.— The conditional is somewhat of a misnomer. Unknown to classic Latin it came into French during the Middle Ages to assume not only the function of mood but of tense. In addition, it sometimes replaces the imperfect subjunctive, which seems destined to disappear from French.)