Constructions in French

Editors

Myriam Bouveret

| Université de Rouen

Dominique Legallois

| Université de Caen Basse-Normandie

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027204356 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00

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ISBN 9789027273307 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00

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.

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 13] 2012. vi, 287 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.13

Table of Contents

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 Antonijević-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

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2016. Exclamatives échoïques : rendement fonctionnel et réalisations prosodiques. SHS Web of Conferences 27 ► pp. 12006 ff.

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2018. In Speaking in a Second Language [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 17], ► pp. 127 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Cognition and language

Romance linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Syntax

Cognitive linguistics

BIC Subject: CF/2ADF – Linguistics/French

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2012036086 | Marc record