Le fāʾ des conditionnelles totales ; Le fāʾ des conditionnelles totales: Aspects diachroniques et synchroniques

International audience ; According to Arabic grammar, a fa‑ must appear between the protasis (p) and the apodosis (q) of a hypothetical system in ʾin whenever the apodosis cannot be protasis, that is to say whenever the apodosis does not have the form faʿala (neutral perfect from the point of view of time) or yafʿal (imperfect apocopate). However, its presence is not only a formal constraint, it also meets a semantic necessity: systems ʾin p, q would mark a logical connection where q would be the logical consequent of p, its antecedent; systems ʾin p fa‑q would mark, on the other hand, a pragm... Mehr ...