Abstrakt: | Making use of the notions of prototype and semantic invariants, the author of the article proposes
an analysis of French past tenses and their description in the shape of semanto-cognitive
schemes. An attempt to explain linguistic phenomena, especially the grammatical ones, on the
basis of human cognitive abilities, that is taking into account the way he/she conceptualises reality,
which is the basis for constructing an utternace, as well as their whole presentation, that is
including all values, uses and functions of the categories examined, seems to be more exhaustive
and more convincing in consequence. |