A comparison between the referential properties of subjects in pre-or postverbal position seems to suggest that only preverbal subjects permit a generalising interpretation — and hence often give rise to ambiguities — , whereas postverbal subjects limit themselves to a specifying role (une découverte sensationnelle s'annonce vs (il) s'annonce une découverte sensationnelle). Impersonal structures (il V S) are of particular interest in this respect as the conditions governing their occurrence, as opposed to those of inverted structures (V-S), are apparently more appropriate for utterances of a general nature (il meurt chaque année des milliers d'enfants). But whereas generic sentences with a preverbal subject express a generalisation of a de...
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Les constructions pronominales moyennes et neutres ont attiré l'attention de beaucoup de linguistes....
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Generalization does not only catch the interest of philosophers, logicians and psychologists but als...
National audienceThe present study purports to investigate the reality of cross-register discourses,...
The Port-Royal Grammaire Générale et raisonnée (1660) adopted a logical model of the clause : « suje...
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Si la possibilité pour les articles le, les et un de figurer en position syntaxique de sujet en lect...
Les constructions pronominales moyennes et neutres ont attiré l'attention de beaucoup de linguistes....
This thesis is about generics, sentences like ‘Bricks are red’, ‘Boars have bristly hair’, or ‘Briti...
In this paper we discuss the interaction between postverbal subjects in French and interpretations o...
Do comparative structures of the type : « A is [more, less, as] + [adjective] [than (as)] B » convey...
Genericity has recently become a central topic of debate in both linguistics and cognitive science. ...
Summary Subjects are required to learn and memorize simple sentences in which the S, V and O element...
The role of pragmatics in shaping linguistic structures is notoriously difficult to establish in a r...
Generalization does not only catch the interest of philosophers, logicians and psychologists but als...
National audienceThe present study purports to investigate the reality of cross-register discourses,...
The Port-Royal Grammaire Générale et raisonnée (1660) adopted a logical model of the clause : « suje...
Based on a Relevance Theory-informed view of language development, this paper argues that grammatica...
National audienceIs English grammar sensitive to the degree of specialisation of texts? Markers of d...
This study investigates the status of adverbials within the verb phrase and the relations these ente...
This dissertation deals with the use of definite and indefinite determiners in generic noun phrases ...
Si la possibilité pour les articles le, les et un de figurer en position syntaxique de sujet en lect...
Les constructions pronominales moyennes et neutres ont attiré l'attention de beaucoup de linguistes....
This thesis is about generics, sentences like ‘Bricks are red’, ‘Boars have bristly hair’, or ‘Briti...