Topic, antitopic and verb agreement in non-standard French / Knud Lambrecht.

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9789027225269

Amsterdam : J. Benjamins, 1981.

English

1 online resource (113 pages) : illustrations.

9789027225269

PC2395 .L28 1981eb

(OCoLC)774287658

The author describes and explains the syntactic and pragmatic properties of the nominal and pronominal elements in sentences of the types Ces Romains ils sont fous and Ils sont fous, ces Romains, which, in spite of their frequent occurrence, have so far received little attention among linguist and grammarians. He argues that far from having the marginal status of a linguistic anomaly, the cooccurrence in the same clause of coreferential nouns and pronouns is one formal manifestation of an important functional principle in modern French: the encoding of a topic-comment relationship in the surface structure of the sentence. The pronouns in sentences such as the ones mentioned are interpeted as agreement markers. The syntactic and semantic differences between topics and anti-topics are analyzed.

The author describes and explains the syntactic and pragmatic properties of the nominal and pronominal elements in sentences of the types Ces Romains ils sont fous and Ils sont fous, ces Romains, which, in spite of their frequent occurrence, have so far received little attention among linguist and grammarians. He argues that far from having the marginal status of a linguistic anomaly, the cooccurrence in the same clause of coreferential nouns and pronouns is one formal manifestation of an important functional principle in modern French: the encoding of a topic-comment relationship in the surface structure of the sentence. The pronouns in sentences such as the ones mentioned are interpeted as agreement markers. The syntactic and semantic differences between topics and anti-topics are analyzed.

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Pragmatics & beyond ; 2:6.

Print version: Lambrecht, Knud. Topic, antitopic, and verb agreement in non-standard French. Amsterdam : J. Benjamins ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Benjamins North America [distributor], 1981

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