Jacques Jayez
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jacques Jayez is involved.
2019 Pragmatic abilities in bilinguals: The case of scalar implicatures Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:2, pp. 314–340 | Article
The experimental literature on the pragmatic abilities of bilinguals is rather sparse. The only study investigating adult second language (L2) learners (Slabakova, 2010) found an increase of pragmatic responses in that population relative to monolinguals. The results of studies on early… read more
2012 The semantics of French continuative rises in SDRT Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring discourse structure, Benz, Anton, Manfred Stede and Peter Kühnlein (eds.), pp. 109–136 | Article
In this paper, we examine the status of French major continuative prosodic contours, which are mainly realised as final rises at the boundary of sentences. We show how to substantiate the common intuition that these contours convey ‘continuation’. We report empirical evidence that indicates that… read more
2005 How Many Are ‘Several’? Argumentation, Meaning and Layers Bare Plurals, Indefinites, and Weak–Strong Distinction, Vogeleer, Svetlana (ed.), pp. 187–209 | Article
In this paper, I present an analysis of the French determiner plusieurs (‘several’). I show that one can account for its two opposite properties, as described in Bacha (1997) and Gondret (1976), namely the fact that (i) plusieurs cannot refer to large quantities and (ii) it is “augmentative”… read more
2000 Du coup et les connecteurs de conséquence dans une perspective dynamique Lingvisticæ Investigationes 23:2, pp. 303–326 | Article
Summary « Du coup » and the consequence discourse markers in a dynamic perspective
Du coup is a French discourse marker (DM) which signals that a consequence relation obtains between two propositions. In this respect it is in the same class as the other consequence French DM, such as donc,… read more
1996 Donc et les Consécutifs. Des Systèmes de Contraintes Différentiels Lingvisticæ Investigationes 20:1, pp. 117–143 | Article
In this paper, we investigate some syntactic and semantic properties of a subclass of consecution discourse markers, or "connectives", in French. Consecution connectives express causal, implicative, or deductive relations between propositional entities. Typical instances of the class in English are… read more
1987 Sémantique et approximation: Le Cas de Presque et à Peine Lingvisticæ Investigationes 11:1, pp. 157–196 | Article
Semantics and approximation: the presquel'a peine problem. "Scalar" linguistic items, such as those involving fuzziness and approximation, seemingly support the view that natural language is free from any deductive process, and calls rather for a sociology of arguing or applied fuzzy set theory.… read more
1980 Un Survol De Recherches Sur Le Traitement Automatique Du Langage Naturel Lingvisticæ Investigationes 4:1, pp. 39–101 | Article