Constructions in French

by Bouveret, Myriam Legallois, Dominique

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My concern is the relationships between grammar and expressivity which have always remained represented a minority, if not a marginal, interest in linguistics. The paper deals with the construction 'P, histoire de inf.' (Prends quelques jours de repos, histoire de te changer les idées 'take a few days' rest, just to have a break from everything'). It is shown, from a diachronic perspective, that the construction expresses an attitudinal meaning, the speaker's stance. The paper argues that, alth…

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Full title :Constructions in French / edited by Myriam Bouveret, Dominique Legallois.

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My concern is the relationships between grammar and expressivity which have always remained represented a minority, if not a marginal, interest in linguistics. The paper deals with the construction 'P, histoire de inf.' (Prends quelques jours de repos, histoire de te changer les idées 'take a few days' rest, just to have a break from everything'). It is shown, from a diachronic perspective, that the construction expresses an attitudinal meaning, the speaker's stance. The paper argues that, although expressivity and attitude meaning have usually been relegated to a secondary role.

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Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

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Description:1 online resource (vi, 287 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027273307, 9027273308, 9027204357, 9789027204356, 1283895234, 9781283895231
oclc:ocn823731314
LC Classification:PC2361
Dewey Decimal:445

Constructions in French -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Cognitive linguistics and the notion of construction in French studies -- 1. Cognitive and enunciative approaches -- 1.1 The Guillaumian school -- 1.2 Theory of enunciative operations -- 1.3 Applicative and cognitive grammar -- 2. The notion of construction -- 2.1 From Bally to Pottier -- 2.2 Construction in the structuralist framework -- 2.3 A psychomechanical account of construction -- 2.4 Macro-syntax -- 3. Conclusion -- 4. This volume -- References -- Part I. Verbal constructions -- Verb typology -- 1. Towards a macro-typology of French verbs -- 1.1 Heuristics -- 1.2 Clusters of constructions -- 1.3 Syntactic hierarchy and coercion phenomena -- 2. The three basic complementation types and their impact on the verbal lexicon -- 2.1 Macro-constructions -- 2.2 Semantic hierarchy of syntactic structures: que-clause> inf> NP -- 3. The three lexical micro-systems -- 3.1 The semantic relation of 'transformation' -- 3.2 Three lexical systems -- 4. Verb typology and polysemy -- 4.1 Typology of meaning extensions -- 4.2 Polysemic regularities -- References -- Appendix -- Is there a SE FAIRE V-er p…

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