Philippe Gréa
List of John Benjamins publications in which Philippe Gréa is involved.
Articles
2015 Proverbe, transposabilité et forme forte Lingvisticæ Investigationes 38:1, pp. 13–72 | Article
How do speakers tease apart a simple generic sentence (les instituteurs ne gagnent pas beaucoup d’argent “school teachers do not make much money”) and a proverb (les cordonniers sont les plus mal chaussés, “shoemakers are always the worst shod”, eng. The cobbler’s children go barefoot)? From a… read more
2012 Être une/Faire partie de: Not a piece of cake Constructions in French, Bouveret, Myriam and Dominique Legallois (eds.), pp. 71–98 | Article
Most of the developments in the part-whole relationship in French are generally based on the predicate être une partie de ‘be a part of’ or on the auxiliary avoir ‘have’, and their comparison. We will look into a complex French predicate which, unlike the two previous ones, has not been the subject… read more
2010 L’un dans l’autre: Enigme et métaphore filée dans un jeu surréaliste Revue Romane 45:1, pp. 91–116 | Article
L’un dans l’autre (“The one in the other”) is the name of a surrealist collective game created in the fifties by André Breton. Less famous than the exquisite cadavers, it is based on a particular use of the threaded metaphor and consists in an enigma that has to be cracked by the players. On… read more