This contribution falls within the broader framework of an attempt to reorganize the morphological history of French, aiming to identify overall evolutionary trends that transcend the developments traditionally studied on a part-of-speech and paradigm-by-paradigm basis. These evolutionary trends can be observed at both the paradigmatic and syntagmatic levels and operate according to either an analytical or a synthetic logic. This contribution focuses on the broad analytical phase that began in Old French and takes as its object of study verbal paradigms, particularly the past simple, the present indicative, the present subjunctive, and the imperative.
Olivier Soutet (Mon,) studied this question.