A propos de l’absence de forme du présent de l’indicatif

Abstract

Abstract The absence of morphological forms of the present indicative contrasts with the great diversity of its uses in the current moment but also in the past and the future. This simplicity is treated differently depending on the theories: proof that the present tense is whithout temporality or that it contains a "zero" morpheme that explains its value. Our study shows that the simplicity of the present tense is that in reality there are many and frequent forms specific not on the suffix inflection but on the stem.