French second language learners' acquisition of the sequence aller plus infinitive: Movement, aspect and tense Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article reports on the development of a particular TAM (tense, aspect, modality) sequence in L2 French (FL2): aller+infinitive. Studies of the acquisition of FL2 regularly point to the frequency of the structure “aller+ infinitive” in the learners’ interlanguage from a relatively early acquisitional stage onwards. The sequence in question is nonetheless often too readily iden- tified with the futur périphrastique or futur proche, which ...