This paper studies the relationships between the grammatical structure of adverbial locutions and their semantic and pragmatic values. We shall be looking at adverbial locutions like tout compte fait, tout bien considéré, tout bien pensé, tout bien pesé, ... These locutions indicate an operation of reformulation which is not paraphrastic (Roulet 1987). It is shown that the distinction between perfective and unperfective processes must be taken into account to calculate the temporal and aspectual value of the locution. More precisely, we put forward the existence of a connection between the resultative value of the locution and its value of reformulation marker (Rossari 1993).