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Impersonals and other agent defocusing constructions in French /
This book investigates French impersonals as a functional category. Any structure whose agent is defocused and whose predicate describes a situation stable enough to be generally available should be considered impersonal. In addition to il impersonals, the category also includes demonstrative (ce/ç...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Human cognitive processing ;
v. 50. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Impersonals and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Narrow and broad impersonals: Definitions and scope of analysis; 1. Beyond structural analyses; 2. Toward a French impersonal functional category; 3. The French impersonal category; 4. A constructional proposal; 5. Recapitulation and discussion; 6. Outline of the following chapters; Chapter 2. A cognitive approach to French impersonals; Chapter 3. The semantic range of impersonals; Chapter 4. Simple impersonals: Patterns of usage.
- Chapter 5. Complex impersonalsChapter 6. Demonstrative (ça) impersonals; Chapter 7. Middle (se) impersonals; Chapter 8. Indefinite (on, ils) impersonals; Chapter 9. Recapitulation and conclusion; 7. A note on the methodology and data; Chapter 2. A cognitive approach to French impersonals; 1. A symbolic view of language; 1.1 Conceptual semantics; 1.2 The conceptual base of clause structure; 1.3 The prototypical coding of clause structure: The transitive clause; 2. Defocusing strategies; 2.1 Alternative trajector selection; 2.2 Identification and delimitation; 3. Grammatical constructions.
- 4. Recapitulation and conclusionChapter 3. The semantic range of il impersonals; 1. Introduction; 2. Simple and complex impersonals; 3. Status of impersonal il; 3.1 "Dummy" il?; 3.2 The field; 3.3 Semantics and Information structure; 4. The semantic range of simple impersonals; 4.1 Distribution of predicates with simple impersonals; 4.2 Presence of the setting in the predicates' lexical semantic structure; 4.3 Comparison with structural accounts; 5. Recapitulation and conclusion; Chapter 4. Simple impersonals: Patterns of usage; 1. Introduction; 2. Usage and grammar; 2.1 Usage and idioms.
- 2.2 The core and periphery of simple impersonal usage3. The core: Existential predicates; 3.1 Exister; 3.2 Relative existence: Rester and manquer; 3.2.1 Rester; 3.2.2 Manquer; 3.3 Recapitulation; 4. Il y a: Existence and location; 4.1 Existence; 4.2 Location; 4.3 The field; 5. The periphery: Arriver, venir, passer; 5.1 Arriver; 5.2 Venir; 5.3 Passer; 6. Recapitulation: Simple impersonals; Chapter 5. Complex impersonals; 1. Introduction. Complex impersonals: Forms and functions; 2. Epistemic evaluation: Reality, events, and propositions; 3. The complex impersonal domain.
- 4. Complement forms: Events and proposition5. Predicates, events, and propositions; 5.1 Deontic predicates; 5.2 Evaluative predicates; 5.3 Epistemic predicates; 5.4 Occurrence predicates; 5.5 Recapitulation; 6. Impersonal passives; 7. Recapitulation and conclusion; Chapter 6. Demonstrative impersonals; 1. Introduction: Il and ça impersonals; 2. Semantic function of demonstratives: Identification, categorization, and evaluation; 3. Semantic properties of demonstratives; 3.1 Ça and flexible reference; 3.2 A subjective construal of the referent; 3.3 Ça has no strict cataphoric sense.