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Indices et attitudes énonciatives : le cas de apparemment.The aim of this article is to give a semantic and enunciative description of Modern French adverb apparemment. This description is supported additionally by the evolution of apparemment from Medieval French until today. Modern French presents three separateuses of the adverb. A pparemment1, quite scarce today, is a item subjunct which occurs onlyin negative contexts. Apparemment2, is a polyphonic subjunct, and determines an adjective ora past participle with the meaning “seemingly, [but not actually]”. A pparemment3 is anenunciative polyphonic adverb, very common today in spoken French. When uttering apparemment3 p, the speaker refers to a certain number of facts, which he presents asindications supporting a conclusion he does not entirely assume. Apparemment3 is used bythe speaker to distance himself from a certain viewpoint. It can be related to a pragmaticfunction of attenuation, and thus works as a marker of the enunciative attitude of thespeaker.