The categories of grammar : French lui and le / Alan Huffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huffman, Alan, 1948-

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 30.

Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; v. 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French language--Pronoun.

French language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers an analysis of the French clitic object pronouns lui and le in the radically functional Columbia school framework, contrasting this framework with sentence-based treatments of case selection. It suggests that features of the sentence such as subject and object relations, normally taken as pretheoretical categories of observation about language, are in fact part of a theory of language which does not withstand empirical testing. It shows that the correct categories are neither those of structural case nor those of lexical case, but rather, semantic ones. Tradition

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Problem of lui and le; 2. The System of Degree of Control; 3. Semantic Substance: Exploitations of Degree of Control; 4. Linguistic Value: Lui versus Le; 5. Networks of Oppositions; 6. The Theory of the Sentence and the Traditional Canon; 7. A New Perspective on the Notions ""Pronominalization"" and ""Cliticity""; 8. The Categories of Grammar; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [360]-370) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-28040-X

9786613280404

90-272-8197-1

OCLC:

750183073