@article {Петрова1979, title = {Съпоставителен преглед на функционирането на имперфекта в българския и френския език}, journal = {Съпоставително езикознание / Сопоставительное языкознание / Contrastive linguistics}, volume = {4}, year = {1979}, pages = {41{\textendash}44}, abstract = {The common and different uses of the imperfect tense in Bulgarian and French are analysed on the morpho-syntactic level: concrete, generalized, habitual, iterative and qualificative. The modal uses of the imperfect are also discussed: optative, the imperfect instead of the futur, the imperfect instead of the pr{\'e}sent, the imparfait instead of the futur imparfait instead of futur hypoth{\'e}tique simple, and imparfait hypocoristique which has no formal equivalent in Bulgarian.}, author = {Петрова, Мария} }