Showing papers in "Langue Francaise in 2000"
TL;DR: This article proposed an analysis of the sentence type "Je vois le facteur qui arrive" in the information-structure framework of Lambrecht 1994, where the main clause introduces a new discourse entity (semantic role "theme", pragmatic role "focus"), while the relative clause expresses some hitherto unknown property of this new entity via secondary predication.
Abstract: Knud Lambrecht, Predication seconde et structure informationnelle : la relative de perception comme construction presentative ; This paper proposes an analysis of the sentence type « Je vois le facteur qui arrive » ("I see the mailman coming") and « Voila le facteur qui arrive » ("There's the mailman coming") within the information-structure framework of Lambrecht 1994. It is argued that this sentence type belongs to a general presentational construction which is also instantiated by sentences like « J'ai mon beau-frere qui fume » ("My brother-in-law smokes") or « Y a le telephone qui sonne » ("The phone is ringing"). In this construction, the main clause introduces a new discourse entity (semantic role "theme", pragmatic role "focus") by situating it in relation to an explicit or implicit reference point (semantic role "locative", pragmatic role "topic"), while the relative clause expresses some hitherto unknown property of this new entity via secondary predication. The possible coding of the theme argument in pronominal form, as in « Je le vois qui arrive » ("I see him coming") or « Le voila qui arrive » ("There he is coming") is explained in terms of the possible passage of a given discourse entity from an internal to an external discourse world. clause expresses some hitherto unknown property of this new entity via secondary predication. The possible coding of the theme argument in pronominal form, as in « Je le vois qui arrive » ("I see him coming") or « Le voila qui arrive » ("There he is coming") is explained in terms of the possible passage of a given discourse entity from an internal to an external discourse world.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the auteur propose d'illustrer le fonctionnement de la theorie de l'optimalite appliquee a quelques phenomenes classiques de la phonologie du francais and a certaines de ses caracteristiques essentielles, telles que la liaison, l'elision and la chute du schwa interconsonantique.
Abstract: L'auteur propose d'illustrer le fonctionnement de la theorie de l'optimalite appliquee a quelques phenomenes classiques de la phonologie du francais et a certaines de ses caracteristiques essentielles, telles que la liaison, l'elision et la chute du schwa interconsonantique. Cela permet de montrer, dans un second temps, comment la theorie de l'optimalite peut expliquer facilement et naturellement des phenomenes phonologiques auxquels se heurtent les traitements generatifs traditionnels. L'auteur met notamment en contraste les points de vue adoptes dans le cadre de la theorie de l'optimalite et des modeles traditionnels de la phonologie generative concernant le statut universel de la phonologie dans les langues et les variations qui existent de l'une a l'autre. Ces dernieres se laissent analyser a partir de l'interaction hierarchique reglee d'un petit nombre de contraintes universelles
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TL;DR: Herslund as mentioned in this paper proposed an analysis of the French present participle (the -ant form) as a converb, i.e. as a non-finite verb form which forms a secondary predication with a primary verb and the subject of this verb.
Abstract: Michael Herslund, Le participe present comme co-verbe The present article proposes an analysis of the French present participle (the -ant form) as a converb, i.e. as a non-finite verb form which forms a secondary predication with a primary verb and the subject of this verb. Contrary to the gerondif (the en -ant form), which always denotes a situation which is contemporary with but distinct from the situation denoted by the primary verb, the present participle as a converb denotes either the same situation as the primary verb or a salient aspect of it. In the verbal couple, verb + converb, the converb most often carries the most important information, cf. the prototypical example : Elle s'est levee mettant fin a l'entretien.
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TL;DR: Rabatel as discussed by the authors argued that c'est has a double representational value in narratives: firstly, it signals the introduction of a new object, and secondly, it implies a perceiving or thinking "subject of consciousness" that validates the first representation value.
Abstract: Alain Rabatel : C'est as a point of view marker in fictional narratives C'est has a double representational value in narratives: firstly because it signals the introduction a new object, secondly because it implies a perceiving or thinking "subject of consciousness" that validates the first representational value. This is why c'est is enough to introduce by itself a light point of view effect in the narrative and may become a full point of view marker, when coming along with a perfective to imperfective tense shift. All this is obviously of highest importance in the reading of narratives, since such linguistic devices strengthen the readers's referential illusion and identification with the character or narrator, hence legitimize possible interpretative inferences. effect in the narrative and may become a full point of view marker, when coming along with a perfective to imperfective tense shift. All this is obviously of highest importance in the reading of narratives, since such linguistic devices strengthen the readers's referential illusion and identification with the character or narrator, hence legitimize possible interpretative inferences.
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TL;DR: Willems et al. as discussed by the authors found a correlation between object complement type and verb meaning in the case of perception verbs, and also found that object complements tend to confine themselves to perceptual meaning, while nominal complements express opinion.
Abstract: Dominique Willems et Bart Defrancq, L'attribut de l'objet et les verbes de perception Verbs expressing perceptual processes can take different types of object complement. Since perception verbs are known to be highly polysemous there could be a correlation between complement type and verb meaning. In the case of voir one of the relevant factors appears to be the grammatical category of the object complement : verbal complements tend to confine themselves to perceptual meaning; nominal complements, on the other hand, tend to express opinion. This correlation confirms and extends earlier analyses of adjectival complements. Furthermore, there seems to be a certain correlation with the form of the object complement, nominal complements preferring to be introduced by prepositions and the like (comme). These correlations are found not only in the case of voir, but also in the case of other perception verbs, which opens interesting perspectives for further research into the semantics of these verbs.
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TL;DR: In this paper, auteur reprend le debat concernant le rapport entre constituants prosodiques and structure syntaxique de surface applique a la prosodie du francais.
Abstract: L'auteur reprend le debat concernant le rapport entre constituants prosodiques et structure syntaxique de surface applique a la prosodie du francais. Elle met en contraste des predictions de segmentation obtenues par differents modeles a consistance et les donnees de son corpus (corpus lu). Cela l'amene a formuler un modele original de la structure prosodique fonde sur deux postulats : 1) les constituants prosodiques sont determines en surface par differentes informations d'ordre linguistique et extralinguistique, 2) des contraintes syntaxiques, semantiques et phonologiques - notamment rythmiques - interviennent en parallele dans la linearisation des enonces. En s'appuyant sur le cas de l'accentuation des phrases dans l'usage reel en francais, l'auteur etudie l'ecart entre organisation prosodique et rythmique d'un enonce et son organisation syntaxique. Elle remarque ainsi que les principes rythmiques et prosodiques d'un enonce interagissent continuellement dans la construction des structures de surface
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TL;DR: Muller as mentioned in this paper divided adjectives into inherent attributive constructions and non inherent ones, and distinguished between cases where verbs are understood as equivalent operators, and cases where there remains only one explanation : the shared time of occurence.
Abstract: Claude Muller, Les constructions a adjectif attribut de l'objet, entre predication seconde et complementation verbale ; Adjectival attributive constructions are divided into inherent attributive constructions, and non inherent ones. Among these, we must distinguish between cases where verbs are understood as equivalent of operators, and cases where there remains only one explanation : the shared time of occurence. In all those structures, adjectives show original properties, that we could understand if we admit that such constructions are syntactically underdetermined.
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TL;DR: The means used by front appositions to connect with primary predication and the part of anchoring point of the detached segment in referential continuity are studied.
Abstract: Franck Neveu - Quelle syntaxe pour l'apposition ? Les types d'appariement des appositions frontales et la continuite referentielle ; This paper studies the means used by front appositions to connect with primary predication and the part of anchoring point of the detached segment in referential continuity. We develop the assumption, that in the appositive system, whatever the order and the kind of the components, the detachment and the second predication lead blocking of any referential mechanism of the segment thougt to be apposed, whose function is to predicate the properties of the support. This describing detached term forms with its controller a referential cell and its place must be described as an icon index of the interpretation field of the controller [+/- accessibility]. continuity. We develop the assumption, that in the appositive system, whatever the order and the kind of the components, the detachment and the second predication lead blocking of any referential mechanism of the segment thougt to be apposed, whose function is to predicate the properties of the support. This describing detached term forms with its controller a referential cell and its place must be described as an icon index of the interpretation field of the controller [+/- accessibility].
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TL;DR: The article traite principalement des dynamiques phonologiques a l'oeuvre dans le francais a partir d'une relecture des travaux de Grammont, linguiste en phonologie de la fin du XIXe siecle as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: L'article traite principalement des dynamiques phonologiques a l'oeuvre dans le francais a partir d'une relecture des travaux de Grammont, linguiste en phonologie de la fin du XIXe siecle. Ses travaux ont durablement marque la phonologie du francais et perdurent, aujourd'hui, sous diverses formes theoriques. Les auteurs montrent comment l'actuel consensus empirique et theorique sur la phenomenologie du e muet trouve ses fondements dans la loi des trois consonnes originellement introduite dans les travaux de Grammont. Par l'analyse des notations et des remarques de Grammont sur le vocabulaire des contraintes, des reparations, des dynamiques phonologiques et des conditions de bonnes formations, on constate que l'actuel modele theorique de l'optimalite reprend ces differents principes phonologiques
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TL;DR: Ferngren as mentioned in this paper unifies the description of the much-debated category of apposition, viewed here as one of three syntactic modes of semantic predication on referents of noun phrases, the two others being modification and attribution.
Abstract: Mats Forsgren - Apposition, attribut, epithete : meme combat predicatif ? This contribution deals with a plaidoyer for unifying the description of the much- debated category of apposition, viewed here as one of three syntactic modes of semantic predication on referents of noun phrases, the two others being modification (fr. epithete) and attribution (fr. attribut). Starting from the pragmatic view-point that apposition represents primarily a propositional speech act — a secondary predication — and a discourse strategy, the author attempt to find common denominators at langue level, in terms of basic constructional and semantic criteria, which are hierarchically ordered, with the aim to isolate some prototypical appositive predicates, as invariants covering the different contextual cognitive interpretations, as described by others (eg. Blumenthal, 1980; Combettes, 1998; Neveu, 1998a and b). Special attention is given to identifying and locative appositive predicates.
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TL;DR: Maingueneau as discussed by the authors proposed a new notion of narrative angelism, which makes it possible to analyse some short passages beyond the scope of classical narration, and two examples (from Zola and Mauriac) are commented.
Abstract: Dominique Maingueneau : Borderline beings and narrative "angelism" ; This article, based on some concepts of discourse analysis and of the linguistics of enunciation, deals with fuzzy relationships between narrator and character in novelistic narration. The author studies especially two notions that he has already introduced in previous works: "generic character" and "witness- narrator", in order to give them a more precise definition. A distinction is made between "unidentifiable character" and "any member of a group", as enunciative positions in the narrative. The next step is the introduction of a new notion, "narrative angelism", which makes it possible to analyse some short passages beyond the scope of classical narration. Two examples (from Zola and Mauriac) are commented. It is argued that such phenomena, which are very few, are narrowly bound with the resources of a given language (for example, French writers can use the subject pronoun "on") and with the aesthetic universe of the works in which they appear.
TL;DR: Cadiot as discussed by the authors showed that utterances such as Paul a frappe Jean au visage, Sylvie est jolie des yeux, Paul a ete attaque sur sa vie privee are cases of double predication.
Abstract: Pierre Cadiot, La preposition comme connecteur et la predication seconde ; The author shows that utterances such as Paul a frappe Jean au visage, Sylvie est jolie des yeux, Paul a ete attaque sur sa vie privee, (Paul struck Jean in the face, Sylvie has pretty eyes, Paul was attaqued on/for his private life) are cases of "double predication". He developes the hypothesis that this double predication is articulted according to a model background/figure and that the choice of prepositions corresponds to an instructional theory of their basic semantic structure.
TL;DR: Combettes as mentioned in this paper considers different types of functionally motivated principles which determine the placement of the apposition phrase in clause first position; from a diachronic point of view, it is possible to distinguish a textual constraint (the initial place as a marker of topic continuity).
Abstract: Bernard Combettes - L'apposition comme unite textuelle et constituant phrastique : approche diachronique This paper considers different types of functionally motivated principles which determine the placement of the apposition phrase in clause first position; from a diachronic point of view, it is possible to distinguish a textual constraint (the initial place as a marker of topic continuity), and a semantic one (the apposition as a marker of temporal relations).
TL;DR: The authors compare between the style indirect libre and the discours direct, and conclude that the former is not a good fit for the latter, while the latter is a better fit for fiction.
Abstract: Cet article est consacre a comparer le style indirect libre et le discours direct. Du point de vue de la strategie de l'interprete et suivant les remarques de Perry sur les indexicaux essentiels, la possibilite qu'offre le style indirect libre de representer les etats mentaux d'autrui dans une forme proche de celle qu'avaient ces etats mentaux pour autrui est un atout important parce que la preservation des indexicaux donnent aux representations au style indirect libre un poids causal ou explicatif que d'autres types de representation pourraient ne pas avoir. De facon generale, donc, on peut considerer que le style indirect libre n'est ni plus ni moins litteraire, ni plus ni moins lie a la fiction que n'importe quelle forme linguistique. On peut en considerer qu'il s'agit d'un type de discours interpretatif au sens de Sperber et Wilson et que, sur une echelle qui irait de la plus a la moins grande fidelite au discours ou aux pensees representees, il se situerait vers le pole de la plus grande fidelite, ce qui explique tout a la fois son poids explicatif pour l'application de la strategie de l'interprete et le role que lui ont souvent attribue les recits de fiction.
TL;DR: In this article, Noailly analyzes the logical relationship between two NGs when their logical relationship may be of three types, which are not always easy to distinguish: either they form an asyndetic coordination, in which case it is possible to furnish a connector; or it is a reformulation, and the second NG acts as if it was a substitute for the first, as a better approximation of the referent; or finally it is an apposition.
Abstract: Michele Noailly - Apposition, coordination, reformulation dans les suites de deux GN juxtaposes ; When two NGs are adjacent, their logical relationship may be of three types, which are not always easy to distinguish: either they form an asyndetic coordination, in which case it is possible to furnish a connector; or it is a reformulation, and the second NG acts as if it was a substitute for the first, as a better approximation of the referent; or finally it is a case of apposition. It is the analysis of these cases of apposition which are the subject of this article. They are examined according to the nature of the determiner of each of the two groups , first when these determiners differ, then in the more subtle case where the two NGs have the same determiner.
TL;DR: The definition one takes as a basis for studying appositions in spoken French can vary from broad stereotyped types to more limitative cases as discussed by the authors, depending on the particular register of language, as well as the definition of the apposition defined by the learner.
Abstract: Claire Blanche-Benveniste, Sandrine Caddeo - Preliminaires a une etude de l'apposition dans la langue parlee ; The definition one takes as a basis for studying appositions in spoken French can vary from broad stereotyped types to more limitative cases. Largely dependent on the particular register of language, as well as the definition one takes as a basis. From the to the limit cases, the range of examples that can come under the category of "appositions" is broader than in the written language, although one can dispense with some of the descriptive criteria such as punctuation.
TL;DR: Leeman as mentioned in this paper showed that the notion of co-reference is useful when it comes to distinguishing analytically between two types of functions an adverbial complement may have, in so far as its meaning may be circumstantial (e.g. of cause, manner, place) or else correspond to the verbal idea.
Abstract: Danielle Leeman - Complements circonstanciels ou appositions? ; Contemporary studies on apposition no longer take into account, as one of its characteristics, the traditional criterion of co-reference , understood as a virtual (lexical) or actual (referential) identity; from this point of view, certain adverbial complements may be considered as appositions. However, the study of numerous prepositional groups introduced by dans shows that the notion of co-reference is useful when it comes to distinguishing analytically between two types of functions an adverbial complement may have, in so far as its meaning may be circumstantial (e.g. of cause, manner, place) or else correspond to the verbal idea : thus, the decision to dissolve the National Assembly constitutes a mistake in a sentence such as Dans sa decision de dissoudre l'assemblee, Chirac a commis une erreur.
TL;DR: Furukawa as discussed by the authors argues that sentences of the type Elle est la qui pleure represent a "spatially located theme" construction, in which the antecedent of the relative pronoun is not the subject Elle but, formally speaking, all the sequence that precedes it.
Abstract: Naoyo Furukawa, Elle est la qui pleure : construction a theme spatialement localise ; This paper argues that sentences of the type Elle est la qui pleure represent a "spatially located theme" construction. Our analysis of the mechanism that produces this particular theme, consists crucially in the observation that the antecedent of the relative pronoun qui is not the subject Elle but, formally speaking, all the sequence that precedes it, that is, Elle est la ; in other words, the role of the relative pronoun qui in this construction resides in receiving a spatially located entity semantically from the sequence Elle est la and thematizing it.
TL;DR: Kupferman as mentioned in this paper showed that the two realizations of the French Verb avoir are both predicates, in fact two-places predicates and not some forms of copulas, and the difference between them is to be located on the level of the internal argument: for the first one it is categorized as a small-clause (SC), and for the second one - a DP.
Abstract: Lucien Kupferman, Avoir et la predication seconde ; It is shown that the two realizations of the French Verb avoir, so-called Predicative avoir, avoir v and so-called Possessive avoir, avoir г are both predicates, in fact two-places predicates, and not some forms of copulas The difference between them is to be located on the level of the internal argument : for the first one it is categorized as a small-clause (SC),,and then we observe a secondary predication-like configuration, and for the second one - a DP From here derives a differenciation regarding the reading of the predicate Avoir is existential and assignats to its internal argument a prototypically eventive propositional content Avoir г denotes a property state and may, with some restrictions which are summarized and explained, have a posseder paraphrazing There is also an argument for strengthing the SC categorizing of the internal argument of the predicate avoir r
TL;DR: In this article, a vaste recherche conduite sur l'histoire de la prononciation du francais is presented, in which the metrie and the graphie constituent deux parametres which permettent a l'auteur de reconstruire les aspects les plus importants de la prosodie du Francais a cette epoque.
Abstract: L'article presente quelques resultats d'une vaste recherche conduite sur l'histoire de la prononciation du francais. A partir d'une analyse des oeuvres en vers mesures de Baif (J.-B.) du XVI e siecle, l'auteur etudie la duree vocalique, ou prosodie, qui se revele etre un phenomene peu connu de cette epoque. Ces vers sont fondes, en principe, sur le poids syllabique des syllabes qui n'intervient en realite que dans les syllabes non accentuees. Les syllabes accentuees doivent occuper une position metrique forte. La graphie intervient aussi et joue un role supplementaire : l'accent circonflexe indique la duree phonologique sur les voyelles, en particulier sur les toniques. Ainsi, la metrie et la graphie constituent deux parametres qui permettent a l'auteur de reconstruire les aspects les plus importants de la prosodie du francais a cette epoque
TL;DR: In this article, a reanalyse du comportement des schwas internes en debut de mot a partir de la theorie du Charme et du Gouvernement d'apres la version CVCV is proposed.
Abstract: L'auteur se propose de fournir des explications concernant l'impossibilite d'omettre schwa quand il est precede par un groupe consonantique initial. Il defend l'idee que le site initial doit etre pris au serieux par la phonologie et il propose, dans cette optique, une reanalyse du comportement des schwas internes en debut de mot a partir de la theorie du Charme et du Gouvernement d'apres la version CVCV. Cette approche envisage la structure syllabique comme une stricte consecution d'attaques et de noyaux non-branchants. Il utilise egalement les concepts de gouvernement propre et de gouvernement infrasegmental pour rendre compte de l'asymetrie de comportement du schwa
TL;DR: In this paper, the so-called narrative infinitive, a type of secundary predication charachterised by the partial specification of the predicative dimensions end the dependence of the left-hand context.
Abstract: Ludo Melis, L'infinitif de narration comme predication seconde ; This study is devoted to the so called narrative infinitive, a type of secundary predication charachterised by the partial specification of the predicative dimensions end the dependence of the left-hand context. This explains the presence of a junctor, the use of de as a marker of particularistion and the restricted distribution of accessory constituents.
TL;DR: This article examined the enunciative anchoring in each of these forms of discourse in order to study whether narrative fiction offers specific features that are linguistically identifiable, such as the rewriting of an identical scene as fiction in The Stranger, clearly as fact in Reflections on the guillotine, and as mixed discourse in Camus's posthumous autofictional novel The First Man.
Abstract: Jean-Michel Adam and Gilles Lugrin : Variations of the enunciative utterer-centered anchor points and fictionalization of an Albert Camus autobiographical narrative ; In Camus's works, one can find three versions of the same autobiographical anecdote. The rewriting of an identical scene as fiction in The Stranger, clearly as fact in Reflections on the guillotine, and as mixed discourse in Camus's posthumous autofictional novel The First Man may be seen as a textbook case. This article examines the enunciative anchoring in each of these forms of discourse in order to study whether narrative fiction offers specific enunciative features that are linguistically identifiable.
TL;DR: In this paper, Picabia et al. compare fronted and postposed appositions and show that the fronted phrase receives a list-reading, a type of interpretation typically associated with an event-type, stage-level predicate.
Abstract: Lelia Picabia - Appositions nominales et determinant zero : le cas des appositions frontales ; Nominal appositions exhibit anaphoric properties and are linked to their antecedent by a BE-type relation. The initial assumption of this paper is that nominal appositions behave as nonref erring, nominal predicates. The comparison of fronted appositions and specificational sentences reveals that in both constructions, the fronted (nonrefe- rential) phrase receives a list-reading, a type of interpretation typically associated with an event-type, stage-level predicate. It further appears that apposed nominals which include a null determiner are steadily associated with a stage-level reading, whatever their linear position with respect to their antecedent; contrastively, apposed nominals which include the overt indefinite determiner (un) are associated with an individual-level readin. A correlate appears to exist between the type of determiner and the syntactic locus of the apposed nominal : the null determiner occurs in fronted appositions (even though these may be moved to the right), while the indefinite determiner occurs in postposed appositions. These descriptive results lead us to conclude that the null and indefinite determiners must have their own syntactic function, and more precisely, must correspond to some functional heads.
TL;DR: The authors explore les nouvelles conceptions de la phonologie generative contemporaine sur la notion d'inventaire phonetique a partir d'un examen des proprietes consonantiques francaises, retient sept traits distinctifs : continue, coronale, dorsale, labiale, laryngale, nasale, sonante.
Abstract: L'article explore les nouvelles conceptions de la phonologie generative contemporaine sur la notion d'inventaire phonetique a partir d'un examen des proprietes consonantiques francaises. L'auteur retient sept traits distinctifs : continue, coronale, dorsale, labiale, laryngale, nasale, sonante. Cette reanalyse de la composition interne des segments s'appuie sur la theorie de l'optimalite dont l'auteur presente les postulats. Il degage ensuite les proprietes des sept traits a partir d'une analyse par contraintes universelles hierarchisees. L'expose se termine en montrant comment le cadre optimaliste peut rendre compte des variations inter et intradialectales en prenant l'exemple de certains phenomenes de palatalisation dans les parlers normands
TL;DR: The phonologie du frangais de notre langue franqais is a terrain d'epreuve scientifique et de demonstration particulierement fertile as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Dans un article important qui marquait 1' abandon des traitements derivationnels unilineaires classiques en phonologie generative du frangais et proposait une approche nouvelle de la phonologie de notre langue dans un cadre syllabique renouvele ' Anderson (1982) soulignait le statut tout a fait particulier dont beneficie le frangais dans le champ des recherches phonologiques contemporaines. II semble bien, en effet, qu'aucune langue au monde n'ait connu au xxe siecle une telle accumulation de descriptions empiriques, d' analyses conduites dans les cadres theoriques les plus varies, et n'ait, comme le frangais, servi de base a la construction de tant d'arguments a l'appui d'innovations theoriques ou formelles. Au triple point de vue empirique, analytique et formel, la phonologie du frangais constitue ainsi un domaine particulierement riche et bien connu : liaison, elision, e muet, comportement du h aspire, semi vocalisation et nasalisation sont autant de problemes rigoureusement constitues pour lesquels les donnees phenomenales sont claires, relativement bien connues et bien etablies. Au cours du siecle, la plupart des hypotheses analytiques possibles ont, tour a tour, ete adoptees. Pour ces raisons, la phonologie du franqais constitue egalement un terrain d'epreuve scientifique et de demonstration particulierement fertile. II n'est pas un cadre phonologique nouveau, ou une innovation theorique un peu articulee, qui n'ait ete confronte aux donnees franqaises et n'ait ete eprouve en phonologie frangaise.
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TL;DR: Gilles Philippe as discussed by the authors discusses enunciative inconsistencies in fictional narratives, that is, sentences with marks of more than one enuncative node in one utterance, and shows that the reader can cancels the inconsistency by ignoring one of the marks.
Abstract: Gilles Philippe : Enunciative inconsistencies in fictional narratives Because of the specificity of their functioning, fictional narratives often contain sentences with enunciative inconsistencies, that is with marks of, as it seems, more than one enunciative node. When considered in isolation, such sentences may often be regarded as barely acceptable; but in context, the reader will usually overlook the inconsistency. It doesn't mean that s/he makes do with marks of two enunciative nodes in one utterance: as a matter of fact, either the reader cancels the enunciative inconsistency by ignoring one of the marks, or the weakest enunciative mark is given a new non-enunciative status in the sentence. All this proves to be very important in the current debate on the enunciative functioning of fictional narratives.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the so-called narrative infinitive, a type of secundary predication charachterised by the partial specification of the predicative dimensions end the dependence of the left-hand context.
Abstract: Ludo Melis, L'infinitif de narration comme predication seconde ; This study is devoted to the so called narrative infinitive, a type of secundary predication charachterised by the partial specification of the predicative dimensions end the dependence of the left-hand context. This explains the presence of a junctor, the use of de as a marker of particularistion and the restricted distribution of accessory constituents.