NON-TELEONOMIC CLAUSES AND INVERSE SUBORDINATION: THE EFFECT OF EMPHASIS

In this paper we analyse an atypical form of the non-final clauses introduced by the preposition pour in French and their relationship with temporal clauses introduced by the preposition avant de (or conjunction avant que). We argue that in both cases the author’s aim is to draw the reader’s attention on some event by moving it into the textual foreground. In the first case it is due to the syntactic features (inversion and autonomy), while in the case of non teleonomic sentences the effect is stronger, and we explain that this is because the factor of intentionality has been annulled and the relation between sentences is reduced to the temporal progression between the two realized events.Publishe