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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457176703321

Autore

Lambrecht Knud

Titolo

Topic, antitopic and verb agreement in non-standard French [[electronic resource] /] / Knud Lambrecht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : J. Benjamins, 1981

ISBN

1-283-35968-5

9786613359681

90-272-8079-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0166-6528 ; ; 2:6

Disciplina

447

Soggetti

French language - Topic and comment

French language - Sentences

French language - Variation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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