Projection provides the speakers with the possibility to foreshadow upcoming next actions, and allows interlocutors to identify syntactic trajectories and the possible completion of utterances. Hence, it relies on different resources available to interactants in talk, such as grammar, prosody and semantics, but also on the sequencing of actions. Drawing on several empirical examples, this article explores the notion of attente (expectation) as used in the macro-syntactic approach and its counterpart projection, with which interactional linguists work. In line with the macrosyntactic tradition, we explain the importance of the discursive memory while distinguishing different facets of projection. As for interactional linguistics, we analyze several cases of anticipatory collaborative completion, thereby showing that projection is contingent on the temporal and sequential features of talk-in-interaction.