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Article published In: Lexical plurals and beyond
Edited by Peter Lauwers and Marie Lammert
[Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39:2] 2016
► pp. 373–390

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Les noms déverbaux

des pluriels lexicaux à la pluriactionnalité

 | Université de Lorraine – UMR 7118 ATILF |

Article language: French

Published online: 30 March 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/li.39.2.09kni
Cette étude porte sur les noms déverbaux d’événement à emploi pluriel majoritaire, et vise à déterminer si cette classe de noms présente des pluriels lexicaux (au sens de Acquaviva, Acquaviva, P. (2008). Lexical plurals: a morpho-semantic approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar). Nous montrons, à la suite d’une étude sur le corpus du FrWac, que l’emploi pluriel majoritaire ne relève pas toujours de ce facteur. Toutefois, lorsque des pluriels lexicaux sont attestés, ils relèvent de plusieurs paramètres ; lorsque les noms sont performatifs, ils peuvent fonctionner comme des pluralia tantum. Pour les noms désignant des événements, la pluriactionnalité interne, lorsqu’elle n’est pas marquée formellement, est un facteur déterminant. Pour ceux qui n’en désignent pas, la pluralité lexicale est liée au fait que, comme généralement, les noms désignent des ensembles d’entités peu individuées.
This study focuses on deverbal nominals occurring mostly in the plural, in order to assess their status as lexical plurals (Acquaviva, P. (2008). Lexical plurals: a morpho-semantic approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar). Our study, based on data from the FrWac, shows that the majority of plural uses does not imply lexical plurality. However, when this phenomenon is observed for event-denoting nominals, it relies either on the performative character of the noun, which behaves as a plurale tantum, or on internal pluractionality. When the nouns do not refer to events, lexical plurality depends on the fact that the entities referred to are conceived as weakly individuated.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 1.Problématique : les noms déverbaux d’événement et le Nombre
  • 2.Méthodologie
  • 3.Résultats
    • 3.1Propriétés des verbes
      • 3.1.1Caractéristiques aspectuelles
      • 3.1.2 Classes sémantiques
    • 3.2Propriétés des noms
      • 3.2.1 Classes sémantiques des noms
      • 3.2.2 Types sémantiques
  • 4.Quels pluriels lexicaux pour quelles valeurs?
    • 4.1Formes ou valeurs propres au pluriel
    • 4.2Singulier et pluriel de même valeur
    • 4.3Pluriels sous-spécifiés
  • 5.Bilan
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Remerciements
  • Notes
  • Œuvres citées
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