ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the patterns attested at temporal juncture and how they relate to previous observations on oral French; how the types of narration compare with each other; and whether the use of a particular tense in a narrative clause correlates with particular structures at the preceding temporal juncture. Formal apparatus for textual cohesion, in particular for coordination and subordination, is often at a minimum, with clauses merely juxtaposed asyndetically or linked by the minimal connectives 'and' or 'then'. A wide variety of types of structures are attested, some of which mark sequence explicitly and unambiguously and yet others where structures raise highly problematic issues in relation to sequence. A database was set up, recording for each temporal juncture in group B of the corpus the tense following the juncture and the structures occurring at temporal juncture in terms of the some major categories and their subcategories.
