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

• Autore: Lambrecht Knud
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, : J. Benjamins, 1981
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (121 p.)
• Disciplina: 447
• Soggetto topico: French language - Topic and comment; French language - Sentences; French language - Variation
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Topic, antitopic and verb agreement in non-standard French
• ISBN: 1-283-35968-5; 9786613359681; 90-272-8079-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781424303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pragmatics & beyond ; ; 2:6.