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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 �...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bouveret, Myriam, Legallois, Dominique
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Colección:Constructional approaches to language.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 passive construction?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Disagreement on the passive SE FAIRE V-er: an overview of the literature
  • 3. Arguments in favor of a "monoconstructional" account of SE FAIRE V-er
  • 4. Evidence towards SE FAIRE V-er as a "passive meaning"-bearing unit
  • 5. A "microsense" account
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Être une/Faire partie de
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A double constraint
  • 2.1 NP1 and the question of plurality
  • 2.2 The dependent relationship between NP0 and NP1
  • 3. Coercion, profiling, idiomatic phrases
  • 3.1 Coercion phenomena
  • 3.2 Profiling variation
  • 3.3 Idiomatic phrases
  • 4. Conclusion: Return to dependency and autonomy.
  • Part III. Semantics, pragmatics and constructions
  • The impersonal value of demonstrative and middle constructions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Cognitive Grammar
  • 2.1 Clause structure: Transitive clause
  • 2.2 Agent defocusing
  • 2.3 Impersonals
  • 2.4 Constructions
  • 3. Ça constructions as setting subject constructions
  • 3.1 Ça and forward reference
  • 3.2 Ça as a setting subject
  • 4. Generality
  • 4.1 Ça impersonals in the copular complement construction
  • 4.2 The impersonal value of middle constructions
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • "C 'est de la bombe!"
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Research context
  • 3. The copular subject-predicate construction: c 'est une belle voiture
  • 4. The CCDN construction: Ça, c 'est de la voiture!
  • 5. The CDN construction: C 'est de la bombe!
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Le prix est (de) 15 euros
  • 0. Introduction
  • 1. [NP_Cop_de_Q NP]: properties of its constituents
  • 1.1 The subject
  • 1.2 The (semantic) predicate
  • 1.3 The copula
  • 2. A specificational construction?
  • 2.1 Convergences between [NP_Cop_de_Q NP] and [NP_Cop_Q NP]: Two specificational copular clauses?
  • 2.2 Divergence: Non-specificational features of [NP_Cop_de_Q NP]
  • 2.3 Interim conclusion
  • 3. The status of [NP_Cop_de_Q NP] within the taxonomic network of constructions
  • 4. Conclusions
  • References
  • From grammaticalization to expressive constructions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Description
  • 2.1 Formal description
  • 2.2 Quantitative description
  • 2.3 Insignificant processes and weak quantification
  • 3. Grammaticalization
  • 3.1 A possible scenario
  • 3.2 C 'est l 'histoire de rire and extravagance
  • 3.3 The specificity of grammaticalization
  • 4. A Construction Grammar account for histoire de + inf.
  • 4.1 Coercion
  • 4.2 Productivity and analogy
  • 4.3 Expressivity
  • 5. Expressive grammar.
  • 5.1 The stylistics of Charles Bally
  • 5.2 Extended lexical unit
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index of constructions
  • Index.