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Constructions in French
Editors
The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for readers who would like to examine how constructional analysis can be applied to a variety of French language phenomena. The eleven papers illustrate the insights generated by combining lexicalist and constructionist approaches, focusing on syntax as a dynamic system and using corpus data from a variety of speech genres. The contributions provide new findings about French usage trends (in linguistics and in psycholinguistics), including insights into new, nonstandard and little studied constructions.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 13] 2012. vi, 287 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 November 2012
Published online on 26 November 2012
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Cognitive linguistics and the notion of construction in French studies: An overviewMyriam Bouveret and Dominique Legallois | pp. 1–20
- Part I. Verbal constructions
- Verb typology: Between construction and lexiconDominique Willems | pp. 23–48
- Is there a SE FAIRE V-er passive construction?Sophie Raineri | pp. 49–70
- Être une/Faire partie de: Not a piece of cakePhilippe Gréa | pp. 71–98
- GIVE frames and constructions in FrenchMyriam Bouveret | pp. 99–124
- Part II. Acquisition of verbal constructions
- Constructing ‘basic’ verbal constructions: A longitudinal study of the blossoming of constructions with six frequent verbsAliyah Morgenstern and Christophe Parisse | pp. 127–154
- L2 acquisition of verbal constructions: Expressing motion in L2 French and EnglishSarah Berthaud and Stanislava Antonijević-Elliott | pp. 155–174
- Part III. Semantics, pragmatics and constructions
- The impersonal value of demonstrative and middle constructionsMichel Achard | pp. 177–200
- “C’est de la bombe!”: Qualitative count-to-mass conversion in French copular subject-predicate constructionsGuillaume Desagulier | pp. 201–232
- Le prix est (de) 15 euros: On copular constructions expressing quantification in FrenchPeter Lauwers | pp. 233–256
- From grammaticalization to expressive constructions: The case of histoire de + inf.Dominique Legallois | pp. 257–282
- Index of constructions | pp. 283–284
- Index | pp. 285–287
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