Paul Boucher

List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul Boucher is involved.

Title

A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students

Paul Boucher

A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students offers the reader an in-depth contrastive study of French and English based on recent theories of linguistics and discourse analysis. At the same time it is a practical manual for the advanced language student or the translator… read more

[Not in series, 216] 2018. xiv, 297 pp.

Articles

Boucher, Paul 2010 Wh-questions in French and English: Mapping syntax to information structure Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure, Breul, Carsten and Edward Göbbel (eds.), pp. 101–138 | Article

As opposed to English, French wh-questions can take a wide variety of forms. I identify four basic patterns: (a) wh- in situ: Vous êtes allés où?; (b) wh- raised, verb in situ: Où vous êtes allés?; (c) est-ce que insertion: Où est-ce que vous êtes allés?; (d) subject-clitic inversion: Où êtes-vous… read more

Boucher, Paul 2006 Mapping function to form: Adjective positions in French Ordre des mots et topologie de la phrase française, Gerdes, Kim et Claude Muller (dir.), pp. 43–60 | Article

The position and meaning of Modern French adjectives is discussed in the generative syntax framework. The classical analysis of Cinque (1995), by N-raising to some functional position, is rejected for a number of reasons, notably its inability to account for changes in position since the Old… read more

Boucher, Paul 2003 1. Determiner Phrases in Old and Modern French From NP to DP: Volume 1: The syntax and semantics of noun phrases, Coene, Martine and Yves D’hulst (eds.), pp. 47–69 | Chapter