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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambrecht, Knud.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; 2:6.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0166-6528 ; 2:6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French language--Topic and comment.

French language.

French language--Sentences.

French language--Variation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : J. Benjamins, 1981.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 linguists 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 relationsh

Contents:

TOPIC, ANTITOPIC AND VERB AGREEMENT IN NON-STANDARD FRENCH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; 0. INTRODUCTION; 1. THE STANDARD/NON-STANDARD DISTINCTION IN MODERN FRENCH: THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS; 2. CLITIC PRONOUNS AS AGREEMENT MARKERS; 2.1. Properties of clitic pronouns in Standard and in Non-Standard French; 2.2. Summary; 2.3. Clitic pronouns and the verb; 3. VERB AGREEMENT IN NON-STANDARD FRENCH; 3.0. Introduction; 3.1. Topic Agreement; 3.2. Antitopic agreement; FOOTNOTES; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-35968-5

9786613359681

90-272-8079-7

OCLC:

769342242