Franck Lebas
List of John Benjamins publications in which Franck Lebas is involved.
Articles
2008 Pragmatics of prepositions: A study of the French connectives pour le coup and du coup Adpositions: Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives, Kurzon, Dennis and Silvia Adler (eds.), pp. 115–132 | Article
Prepositions are rarely described in terms of their pragmatic potential. Yet, some prepositions help build connective locutions, and we show that their general value may then contribute directly to the pragmatics of these locutions. The French complex connective pour le coup − translated as a blend… read more
2006 The semantics of motion verbs: Action, space, and qualia Space in Languages: Linguistic Systems and Cognitive Categories, Hickmann, Maya † and Stéphane Robert (eds.), pp. 175–206 | Article
2002 The theoretical status of prepositions: The case of the “prospective use” of in Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context, Feigenbaum, Susanne and Dennis Kurzon (eds.), pp. 59–73 | Article