National audienceThis paper is concerned with sentences containing the verb commence in the preterite followed by 'to-infinitives'. It aims to show to what extent the usual hypotheses presented in the literature are confirmed by Stein's text. The study tries to show in what ways the formality of the verb commence is significant and in what ways the co-enunciative dimension must be considered. Some concepts are drawn from C. Smith's theory of 'modes of discourse' and more particularly the concept of 'shifts' of modes. It is shown that a discursive textual study can shed some light on the question of the status of the grammatical subject and the predicative relation (verb constellation). Drawing some concepts from French enunciative approache...
Gramley S. Infinitive and Gerund Complements with the Verbs begin and start. Arbeiten aus Anglistik ...
The six verbs BEGIN/START, CONTINUE/KEEP and STOP/FINISH are among J. R. Firth's (1968 : 122) 'verbs...
Les verbes aspectuels « cease » et « continue » présentent la particularité d’être complémentés par ...
National audienceThis paper is concerned with sentences containing the verb commence in the preterit...
International audienceThis article proposes to reassess the role of aspectualizers 'begin' and 'star...
This is the story of a markedness contrast between between two verbal complementation patterns, each...
International audienceThe point of this paper is to argue for the relevance of the paradoxical notio...
2. B. Peeters, « Commencer and se mettre à : an axiologico-conceptual description » This paper exam...
Commencer et recommencer pensent le temps du théâtre. Ils interrogent les frontières du spectacle et...
A. Rochette, « On the Selectional Restrictions of Aspect in French Infinitival Complements » This pa...
This essay is a corpus study, the aim of which is to investigate the usage of two near-synonymous ve...
This article investigates the cognitive operations underlying the different uses of four main begin...
textAnscombe (1964) presents influential arguments that 'before' and 'after' cannot denote converse ...
International audienceThis volume provides a broad overview of the question of adverbials at the syn...
Verbs like begin may take either a VP or an NP complement, but their meaning is pretty similar in b...
Gramley S. Infinitive and Gerund Complements with the Verbs begin and start. Arbeiten aus Anglistik ...
The six verbs BEGIN/START, CONTINUE/KEEP and STOP/FINISH are among J. R. Firth's (1968 : 122) 'verbs...
Les verbes aspectuels « cease » et « continue » présentent la particularité d’être complémentés par ...
National audienceThis paper is concerned with sentences containing the verb commence in the preterit...
International audienceThis article proposes to reassess the role of aspectualizers 'begin' and 'star...
This is the story of a markedness contrast between between two verbal complementation patterns, each...
International audienceThe point of this paper is to argue for the relevance of the paradoxical notio...
2. B. Peeters, « Commencer and se mettre à : an axiologico-conceptual description » This paper exam...
Commencer et recommencer pensent le temps du théâtre. Ils interrogent les frontières du spectacle et...
A. Rochette, « On the Selectional Restrictions of Aspect in French Infinitival Complements » This pa...
This essay is a corpus study, the aim of which is to investigate the usage of two near-synonymous ve...
This article investigates the cognitive operations underlying the different uses of four main begin...
textAnscombe (1964) presents influential arguments that 'before' and 'after' cannot denote converse ...
International audienceThis volume provides a broad overview of the question of adverbials at the syn...
Verbs like begin may take either a VP or an NP complement, but their meaning is pretty similar in b...
Gramley S. Infinitive and Gerund Complements with the Verbs begin and start. Arbeiten aus Anglistik ...
The six verbs BEGIN/START, CONTINUE/KEEP and STOP/FINISH are among J. R. Firth's (1968 : 122) 'verbs...
Les verbes aspectuels « cease » et « continue » présentent la particularité d’être complémentés par ...