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This study follows a previous work about the distribution of synthetic (SF) and periphrastic (PF) future tense in modern French and the evolution of both forms in a micro-diachronic corpus of spoken French (Enquêtes Sociolinguistiques à Orléans). We identified, among other phenomena explaining the actual quantitative domination of the periphrastic future, the emerging discourse marker on va dire, which frequency increased significantly in the past 40 years. This paper aims at studying the process of pragmaticalization undergone by the form, describing its specific semantic and syntactic properties. We also examine the global semantic instruction expressed by this form and its pragmatic effects in context., Cette étude est le prolongement d’une recherche antérieure sur la distribution des formes du futur (futur simple et futur périphrastique) et leur évolution dans un corpus oral micro-diachronique, les Enquêtes sociolinguistiques à Orléans. Parmi les phénomènes qui explique la domination synchronique actuelle du FP, nous avons identifié l’émergence de l’expression on va dire, quasiment absence 40 ans plus tôt. L’objectif de cet article est d’étudier la pragmaticalisation de cette forme, vue comme un marqueur discursif, avec des propriétés syntaxiques et sémantiques spécifiques que nous présenterons. Il sera également question d’identifier l’instruction sémantique globale exprimée par ce marqueur ainsi que les différents effets de sens qu’il permet.

The present paper focuses on the description of the gnomic uses of the French Future Simple tense (futur simple). It can express common truths in proverbs, sayings, and in other forms of expression of general meaning. The Author compares the gnomic uses of the Future and Present tenses, and points out the similarities and differences that exist between the gnomic and primary uses of the French Future tense. The results of the analysis show that the gnomic use of the French Future Simple tense differs from its other special uses.

The present paper focuses on some of the uses of the Future Simple Tense and the analysis of their Polish equivalents. The material for the analysis is taken from the corpus of French literary texts and their Polish translations. The author concentrates on the modal uses of the tense expressing probability (Ce sera le facteur), command (Tu mettras la table !), and those whose function is to soften a statement (Je te dirai que cela ne me plaît pas). Polish, in the above mentioned contexts, makes use of the Future Tense as well, but, as the analysis of the corpus material shows, there are some contexts where some other structures are used, such e.g. as: forms of the imperative mood or the conditional, modal particles (pewnie, może), constructions with the verb musieć, polite phrases with proszę, etc.