Adverbes de Date: Étude Préliminaire à Leur Traitement Automatique

French adverbs of date: Preliminary study to their automatic treatment.This article deals with a study of French adverbs of date. The construction of these adverbs is presented in the form of automata. Paragraph two deals with time adverbs and raises the problem of generalizing the notion of adverb and of the choice of a verb classifier. The next paragraph describes the structure of adverbial complements which have the names of time as heads. Many determinants, extensions of names, co-ordinations are studied. There are also some examples of ellipsis. Paragraph four deals with adverbial complements which have names of feast as heads. A last paragraph concludes with a description of data processing application and with the part that these automata will take in a syntactic analysis, in a transfer model of translation system or in a data base.