Abstract: | ln her article Ewa Ciszewska attempted to present the retrospect:ive value (summary or
synthesis) of the future perfeet tense (futur antérieur). Futur antérieur is often used in press
articles for underlining peculiar nature of an event from the past and for summarizing it, e.g.
L'année 2001 aura été fatale pour l'économie mondiale. An analysis of the context maltes it possible
to indicate the elements which allow the reader to choose the correct interpretation of the
futur antérieur tense. These elements comprise the expressions like: il aura fallu x temps pour...,
il aura suffi de... pour..., summarizing expressions: au total, au final, en déÎUlitive, adversative
phrases: en revache, néanmoins, pourtant and the adverbs jamais and rarement when they appear
at the beginning of a sentence. ln such utterances one can usually find continuative verbs
(llre, durer, valoir) which are used with adverbials of time, thus indicating certain segments of
time. |