Questions about the development of the Romance future have engaged
scholars since Thielmann's classic statement of 1885, yet a century
later a number of the fundamental issues remain unresolved.
Professor Fleischman suggests that this is in part due to the
narrow sense in which the question has traditionally been
formulated - as simply the history of the future-tense' slot in the
grammar - and in part the result of the investigative approach,
which until recently has taken little account of important advances
in general linguistics in the field of diachronic syntax. The
present volume examines 'future' as a conceptual category and
discusses the various strategies that have been used to map this
conceptual category on to grammar in Romance. The data are taken in
the main from Western Romance languages, particularly French, and
frequent parallels are drawn with English. To account for the
evolution of the future, Professor Fleischman proposes a network of
interrelated, often cyclical developments in syntax and semantics,
and seeks to place the individual diachronic events within a
broader framework of syntactic typology and universal patterns of
word-order change.
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