Constructions in French
1st Edition
Published on 19. December 2012
VI, 287 pages
978-90-272-7330-7 (ISBN)
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The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for readers who would like to examine how constructional analysis can be applied to a variety of French language phenomena. The eleven papers illustrate the insights generated by combining lexicalist and constructionist approaches, focusing on syntax as a dynamic system and using corpus data from a variety of speech genres. The contributions provide new findings about French usage trends (in linguistics and in psycholinguistics), including insights into new, nonstandard and little studied constructions.
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Myriam Bouveret | Dominique Legallois
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Cognitive linguistics and the notion of construction in French studies: An overview
Myriam Bouveret and Dominique Legallois
1 - 20
Part I. Verbal constructions
Verb typology: Between construction and lexicon
Dominique Willems
23 - 48
Is there a SE FAIRE V-er passive construction?
Sophie Raineri
49 - 70
Être une/Faire partie de : Not a piece of cake
Philippe Gréa
71 - 98
GIVE frames and constructions in French
Myriam Bouveret
99 - 124
Part II. Acquisition of verbal constructions
Constructing 'basic' verbal constructions: A longitudinal study of the blossoming of constructions with six frequent verbs
Aliyah Morgenstern and Christophe Parisse
127 - 154
L2 acquisition of verbal constructions: Expressing motion in L2 French and English
Sarah Berthaud and Stanislava Antonijevic-Elliott
155 - 174
Part III. Semantics, pragmatics and constructions
The impersonal value of demonstrative and middle constructions
Michel Achard
177 - 200
"C'est de la bombe!" : Qualitative count-to-mass conversion in French copular subject-predicate constructions
Guillaume Desagulier
201 - 232
Le prix est (de) 15 euros : On copular constructions expressing quantification in French
Peter Lauwers
233 - 256
From grammaticalization to expressive constructions: The case of histoire de + inf.
Dominique Legallois
257 - 282
Index of constructions
283 - 284
Index
285 - 288
Myriam Bouveret and Dominique Legallois
1 - 20
Part I. Verbal constructions
Verb typology: Between construction and lexicon
Dominique Willems
23 - 48
Is there a SE FAIRE V-er passive construction?
Sophie Raineri
49 - 70
Être une/Faire partie de : Not a piece of cake
Philippe Gréa
71 - 98
GIVE frames and constructions in French
Myriam Bouveret
99 - 124
Part II. Acquisition of verbal constructions
Constructing 'basic' verbal constructions: A longitudinal study of the blossoming of constructions with six frequent verbs
Aliyah Morgenstern and Christophe Parisse
127 - 154
L2 acquisition of verbal constructions: Expressing motion in L2 French and English
Sarah Berthaud and Stanislava Antonijevic-Elliott
155 - 174
Part III. Semantics, pragmatics and constructions
The impersonal value of demonstrative and middle constructions
Michel Achard
177 - 200
"C'est de la bombe!" : Qualitative count-to-mass conversion in French copular subject-predicate constructions
Guillaume Desagulier
201 - 232
Le prix est (de) 15 euros : On copular constructions expressing quantification in French
Peter Lauwers
233 - 256
From grammaticalization to expressive constructions: The case of histoire de + inf.
Dominique Legallois
257 - 282
Index of constructions
283 - 284
Index
285 - 288
