{"title":"Prédicats de mesure et objet(s): Les accords du désaccord","authors":"L. Serrano, Nuria Rodríguez Pedreira","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.1.04PIN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.1.04PIN","url":null,"abstract":"L’etude aborde la problematique de l’accord du participe passe des verbes dits metrologiques en francais. Nous tenterons d’eclairer le statut ambigu du segment avec lequel s’effectue l’accord afin de determiner s’il s’agit d’un vrai objet (COD) ou d’un autre type de complement. Partant des donnees obtenues lors d’une enquete linguistique adressee a des etudiants francais et espagnols de la Faculte de Philologie, nous essaierons de deceler les raisons qui poussent nos etudiants a respecter ou a enfreindre le protocole d’accord du participe passe des verbes conjugues avec avoir ( Vaux Av ). Nos resultats confirmeront qu’il est grand besoin de simplifier les regles d’accord existantes parce qu’elles sont artificielles, peu transparentes et qu’elles manquent enfin d’une base grammaticale ferme et solide. This paper aims to study past participle agreement of measure verbs in French. An attempt will be made to clear up the ambiguous status of the segment that agrees with the past participle of these verbs to determine whether this segment functions as a direct object (DO) or as any other complement. Based on the data obtained from a linguistic survey conducted at the Faculty of Philology and addressed to French and Spanish students, we will try to clarify the reasons why our students meet or violate the grammatical rules of the agreement of the past participle of these measure verbs with the auxiliary avoir . Our results will confirm the need to simplify these matching rules both for being artificial and opaque and, in many cases, and for lacking a solid grammatical base.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"88-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LI.39.1.04PIN","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58892384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The capricious evolution of the indefinite plural article uns and its relationship with lexical plurality in medieval French","authors":"A. Carlier","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.2.06CAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.2.06CAR","url":null,"abstract":"The indefinite plural article uns in medieval French conjoins the features of unity and plurality. Because of its grammatical nature, uns is not restricted to lexical plurals, but combines in a productive way to nouns having a regular singular-plural alternation in order to create a complex referent not reducible to the sum of its components. Moreover, uns expresses not only quantitative unity ‘one single N’, but also qualitative unity ‘one same N’ and is not linked to lexical plurality in the latter case. Since its features of unity and plurality are considered as incompatible, plural indefinite articles have been assumed to emerge in an advanced stage of grammaticalization, when the numeral source meaning is bleached out, and to be not viable over time. Both hypotheses were invalidated in the present study.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"309-334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58892811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collectives, object mass nouns and individual count nouns: Nouns between lexical and inflectional plural marking","authors":"Wiltrud Mihatsch","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.2.05MIH","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.2.05MIH","url":null,"abstract":"Mass superordinates such as clothing, clothes and furniture form a distinct and peculiar class of nouns in languages with an obligatory singular/plural distinction. These nouns often have pluralia-tantum variants as well as count equivalents – both within one linguistic system as well as cross-linguistically. This study is a follow-up of my earlier analysis of Romance superordinates ( Mihatsch, 2006 ). The data are taken from English, German, French and Spanish in order to demonstrate the striking cross-linguistic pattern. The highly variable Spanish ropa(s) ‘clothing/clothes’ is analysed in greater detail. I argue that in most cases the apparently unsystematic synchronic variants arise from partly unidirectional diachronic changes, namely a lexicalisation process leading from collective nouns to object mass nouns, often followed by the appearance of plural forms, which oscillate between a lexical and an inflectional plural.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"289-308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LI.39.2.05MIH","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58893122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Renversement de gouvernance sémantique dans le syntagme nominal en français","authors":"M. Wauthion","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.1.02WAU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.1.02WAU","url":null,"abstract":"L’analyse semantique du syntagme nominal a plusieurs elements est ordonnee d’ordinaire a partir du noyau nominal. Les elements de determination completent le nom en lui ajoutant des elements d’information ou en modifiant l’etendue du groupe ainsi forme. D’abord element de sous-categorisation du nom, l’adjectif a ete progressivement isole en francais pour marquer ces fonctions. L’article passe en revue les elements de frontiere entre ces parties du discours : le substantif epithete, l’adjectif relationnel principalement. En partant de l’analyse connue des tours avec nom qualifieur antepose, il montre que le commandement semantique doit etre attribue dans plusieurs cas a l’element syntaxiquement subordonne sans que l’explication d’un emploi figure du langage soit necessaire. The semantic analysis of complex noun phrases (NP) is usually determined by the nominal nucleus. Adjectives and determiners complement the noun by adding pieces of information or changing the size of the expanded NP. This paper emphasizes nominal constructions in French where the semantic nucleus must be reassigned to units which do not operate as a syntactic nucleus of NPs. It first discusses what has historically motivated the progressive autonomy of the adjective from the noun. The study then reviews multiple aspects of quantifying and qualifying constructions in NPs, with particular consideration of metaphors. It analyses how some boundary sub-categories, participate in the semantic governance of NP: N2 in expressive binominal noun phrases (N1N2 or N1 de N2), relational adjectives in (N1AdjR) groups.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"27-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58892557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les noms déverbaux: des pluriels lexicaux à la pluriactionnalité","authors":"M. Knittel","doi":"10.1075/LI.39.2.09KNI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.39.2.09KNI","url":null,"abstract":"Cette etude porte sur les noms deverbaux d’evenement a emploi pluriel majoritaire, et vise a determiner si cette classe de noms presente des pluriels lexicaux (au sens de Acquaviva, 2008 ). Nous montrons, a la suite d’une etude sur le corpus du FrWac, que l’emploi pluriel majoritaire ne releve pas toujours de ce facteur. Toutefois, lorsque des pluriels lexicaux sont attestes, ils relevent de plusieurs parametres ; lorsque les noms sont performatifs, ils peuvent fonctionner comme des pluralia tantum. Pour les noms designant des evenements, la pluriactionnalite interne, lorsqu’elle n’est pas marquee formellement, est un facteur determinant. Pour ceux qui n’en designent pas, la pluralite lexicale est liee au fait que, comme generalement, les noms designent des ensembles d’entites peu individuees. This study focuses on deverbal nominals occurring mostly in the plural, in order to assess their status as lexical plurals ( Acquaviva, 2008 ). Our study, based on data from the FrWac, shows that the majority of plural uses does not imply lexical plurality. However, when this phenomenon is observed for event-denoting nominals, it relies either on the performative character of the noun, which behaves as a plurale tantum, or on internal pluractionality. When the nouns do not refer to events, lexical plurality depends on the fact that the entities referred to are conceived as weakly individuated.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"39 1","pages":"373-390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58893206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proverbe, transposabilité et forme forte","authors":"Philippe Gréa","doi":"10.1075/LI.38.1.02GRE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.38.1.02GRE","url":null,"abstract":"Sur la base de quelle qualite mysterieuse les locuteurs parviennent a etablir la distinction entre une simple phrase generique (les instituteurs ne gagnent pas beaucoup d’argent) et un proverbe (les cordonniers sont les plus mal chausses) ? Du point de vue formel, ces deux types d’enonces sont tres proches et pourtant, seul le second a la capacite de s’appliquer a d’autres domaines que celui de la cordonnerie. Cette capacite, nous l’appelons la transposabilite et nous en rendons compte au moyen d’une hypothese qui s’applique aux proverbes, mais aussi aux expressions figees semantiquement transparentes : un proverbe lexicalise une forme semantique reduite a quelques traits organises entre eux par des relations sematniques, et que l’on represente, en nous inspirant du formalisme de (Sowa, 1984), sous la forme d’une molecule semique (Rastier, 1989). Pour expliquer le caractere transposable d’une molecule semique, nous faisons alors appel a une notion issue de la Gestaltheorie, la notion de forme forte. Un proverbe est transposable sans contrainte a condition de lexicaliser une forme forte, c’est-a-dire une molecule manifestant un haut degre de cohesion interne. Au plan semantique, nous montrons que cette cohesion se mesure a l’aune de deux facteurs : (i) une architecture relationnelle inherente ou socialement normee, et (ii) une articulation sans restes.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"287 1","pages":"13-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58891448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les prédicats Prep N figés adjectivaux et adverbiaux","authors":"Agnieszka Kaliska","doi":"10.1075/LI.38.1.04KAL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.38.1.04KAL","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to consider syntactic and semantic properties of frozen predicates Prep N in Polish, which may express either a state or a property of the subject. Some of them correspond to adjectival interrogative pronouns, while others correspond rather to an adverbial interrogation. We discuss to what extent these and other syntactic features reflect the notional features, defined as a property or as a state and if they justify the division between the adjectival Prep N and the adverbial Prep N. Our analysis is based on Polish data but it also contains references to other languages: French, Korean, English. More general issues are also discussed in this paper: identification of the categories called parts of speech and transfer between categories (noun vs. adjective vs. adverbe).","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"38 1","pages":"111-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58891508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sémantique des énoncés itératifs. Une approche formelle","authors":"P. Enjalbert","doi":"10.1075/LI.38.1.05ENJ","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.38.1.05ENJ","url":null,"abstract":"This article is about the semantics of iterative statements, expressing repetition in time of a type-eventuality. With these statements are associated frequency properties, quantified by iterative adverbs (often, sometimes, sporadically, n times out of p…). Our purpose is to design a formal representation, with a method allowing to compute it from the text. The interpretation of an iterative statement closely relies on its information structure so that we first study precisely the topic-focus partition for a significant range of configurations. In the formal model, the occurrences of iterative eventualities or circumstants are represented by sequences of intervals. The temporal semantic of a sentence is then formalised as an instanciation of generic formulas using two types of generalised quantifiers.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"1 1","pages":"133-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58891514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ontological Semantic treatment of multiword expressions","authors":"M. McShane, S. Nirenburg, S. Beale","doi":"10.1075/LI.38.1.03MCS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LI.38.1.03MCS","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes, and presents a formal evaluation of, the Ontological Semantic approach to automatically analyzing multiword expressions. It shows how multiword expressions can be lexically recorded and processed in the same way as compositional argument-taking words. It suggests that the component modeling strategies are psychologically plausible and hold promise for supporting the development of sophisticated, language-endowed intelligent agents.","PeriodicalId":43668,"journal":{"name":"Linguisticae Investigationes","volume":"38 1","pages":"73-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LI.38.1.03MCS","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58891453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}