Le système des possessifs en français standard moderne

Anne Zribi-Hertz: The possessive system of Standard Modern French This paper offers a thorough description of the three series of possessive expressions produced in Standard Modern French: possessive determiners (e.g. mon), possessive adjectives (e.g. mien) and dative possessives (e.g. à moi). It attempts to show how the three types are interrelated, and in what respects the possessive system of Modern French differs from those of Old French and Latin. The leading assumption is that Modern French possessives are spell-outs of a functional head, labelled 'I°', which articulates finite predications.Zribi-Hertz Anne. Le système des possessifs en français standard moderne. In: Langue française, n°122, 1999. Le groupe nominal : contraintes distributionnelles et hypothèses de descriptions, sous la direction de Anne Daladier. pp. 7-29