La temporalité en arabe De la contrainte du système à la liberté du traducteur (II)

The author considers temporality in its large linguistic span: temporal connectors, verbal systems, consecutio temporum. How can Arabic – with its two tenses (accomplished/unaccomplished) – render the richness of tenses and modes possible in French? Which principles of compensation are available to express the future or anteriority of composed tenses, which risk “enriching” (Eco), “over” or “under-determining” (Fuchs)? What kind of “rebalance” can rewriting achieve?