« Ce matin, il pleuvait », ou la référence à l'épreuve du temps

This paper is about the cooccurrence of deictic markers and past tenses in narratives within the framework of a theory of fiction which distinguishes two main configurations : the restricted configuration, in which the temporal reference point is movable and coincides with the related events, and the extended configuration, in which the temporal reference point is fixed, exterior to the fiction, and corresponds by convention to the date of publication of the narrative.Gaiffe Bertrand, Romary Laurent. « Ce matin, il pleuvait », ou la référence à l'épreuve du temps. In: Langages, 27ᵉ année, n°112, 1993. Temps, référence et inférence, sous la direction de Jacques Moeschler. pp. 74-91