Laurent Gosselin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laurent Gosselin is involved.
2020 Chapter 14. Les modalités dans L’Étranger et l’expression de l’absurde The Expression of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Albert Camus’s L'Étranger and Its Translations / L'Étranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalité et d'évidentialité (TAME): An empirical study / Etude empirique, Corre, Eric, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao (eds.), pp. 267–282 | Chapter
The central notion in L’Étranger is that of the Absurd. However, it is not meant as a simple representation of experiencing absurdity, because the novel would then have an unequivocal interpretation, in contradiction with the ambivalent experience that it is supposed to express. We show that the… read more
2016 Les modes expriment-ils des modalités ? L’alternance indicatif/subjonctif dans les complétives objet Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39:1, pp. 143–189 | Article
Cet article traite la question du choix du mode, indicatif ou du subjonctif, dans les complétives objet en français. Une attention particulière est portée sur les verbes recteurs, la négation, l’interrogation, l’impératif, la subordination hypothétique … Nous montrons que les hypothèses actuelles… read more
2012 Itération et agglomérats de procès Revue Romane 47:1, pp. 25–48 | Article
Some examples of iterative aspect, especially in French literature, show a highly complex structure : the iteration does not concern a single eventuality, but a combination of eventualities. In order to deal with these facts, we introduce a new category in the grammar of aspect : the cluster of… read more
1990 L'Interprétation des Relatives: Le Rôle des Déterminants Lingvisticæ Investigationes 14:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
This paper deals with the problem of the opposition between restrictive and descriptive relative clauses. The syntactic and/or semantic nature and validity of this opposition are discussed. Based on recent semantic analyses which contest the necessity and the possibility of choosing in every case… read more