Sur la valeur "prototypante" du présent de l'indicatif
Résumé
In some written or oral utterances, the present tense does not refer to any specific
situation, whether simultaneous to the speech act or not. It does allow a
“prototypical” event to be referred to, through a co-text and a context involved in
this “dis-actualization”. This event is unreal and exemplary and can be realized in
many different ways; that is the signification of “prototyping modality” of the
present tense.