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Before we discuss the topic of acquisition, it will be useful to provide non-Italian readers with a basic description of the morphology of Future, its possible substitutions with other tenses (and forms), and its use in standard Italian,1 in order to illustrate some peculiarities of this tense in adults’ language. Adults’ language plays a role not only as the standard language to be acquired, but also in the actual interactions, where some children’s occurrences of Future are “primed” (cf. 2.4), according to textual constraints.
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*Many thanks are due to Paola Cipriani and her team and to Jonathan Hunt for his timely help.
1Recent studies (Bazzanella, 1994; Berretta, 1994; Berruto, 1987; Bertinetto, 1986; Simone, 1990) deal with different aspects of the Future tense in modern spoken Italian.
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Bazzanella, C., Bosco, C. (2000). Morphological Future in Italian Children*. In: Perkins, M., Howard, S. (eds) New Directions In Language Development And Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4157-8_17
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