Handbook of French Semantics
edited by Francis Corblin and Henriëtte de Swart
This work focuses on the semantic particularities
of the French language, covering five empirical
themes: determiners, adverbs, tense and aspect,
negation, and information structure. The
specialists contributing here—including general
linguists in France and French linguists in the
Netherlands—take formal approaches to
semantics and its interface with syntax and
pragmatics, highlighting meaning in its relation
to both structure and use. Their results should
be of particular interest to French and Romance
linguists who want to study French from a formal
semantic perspective and to general linguists
who are interested in cross-linguistic semantics.
Francis Corblin is professor of linguistics at the
Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne.
Henriëtte de Swart is professor of French linguistics at Utrecht
University.
- Preface
I Determiners
- 1 Generalized Quantifiers, Dynamic Semantics, and French Determiners
Francis Corblin, Ileana Comorovski, Brenda Laca and Claire Beyssade
- 2 Nounless Determiners
Francis Corblin, Jean-Marie Marandin and Petra Sleeman
- 3 Towards a Uniform Characterization of Noun Phrases with Des or Du
Leonie Bosveld-de Smet
- 4 Generic Plural Indefinites and (In)direct Binding
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin
- 5 Tout as a Genuine Free Choice Item
Jacques Jayex and Lucia M. Tovena
- 6 Degree Quantifiers
Jenny Doetjes
- 7 Quelgue
Francis Corblin
- 8 Différents
Brenda Laca and Liliane Tasmowski
- 9 Diners
Illeana Comorovski and Laurence Nicaise
- 10 Quel
Ileana Comorovski
II Adverbs
- 11 Adverb Classification
Olivier Bonami, Danièle Godard, and Brigitte Kampers-Manhe
- 12 Adverbs and Quantification
Anne Abeillé, Jenny Doetjes, Arie Molendijk, and Henriëtte de Swart
- 13 Parentheticals as Convential Implications
Jacques Jayez and Corinne Rossari
III Tense and Aspect
- 14 Tense and Aspect in Sentences
Henk Verkuyl, Co Vet, Andrée Borillo, Myriam Bras, Anne La Draoulec, Arie Molendijk, Henriëtte de Swart, Carl Vetters, and Laure Vieu
- 15 Meanining and Use of Past Tense Discourse
Arie Molendijk, Henriëtte de Swart, Carl Vetters, Andrée Borillo, Myriam Bras, Anne Le Draoulec, Laure Vieu, Henk Verkuyl, and Co Vet
- 16 Tense Connectives and Discourse Structure
Andrée Borillo, Myriam Bras, Anne Le Draoulec, Laure Vieu, Arie Molendijk, Henriëtte de Swart, Henk Verkuyl, Co Vet, and Carl Vetters
IV Negation
- 17 French Negative Dependency
Danièle Godard
- 18 Polarity Sensitive Items
Lucia Tovena, Viviane Déprez, and Jacque Jayez
- 19 Negative Concord
Francis Corblin, Viviane Déprez, Henriëtte de Swart, and Lucia Tovena
V Information
- 20 Prosodic, Syntactic and Pragmatic Aspects of Information Structure—an Introduction
Claire Beyssade, Elisabeth Delair-Roussarie, Jenny Doetjes, Jean-Marie Marandin, and Annie Rialland
- 21 Prosody and Information in French
Claire Beyssade, Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Jenny Doetjes, Jean-Marie Marandin, and Annie Rialland
- 22 Dislocation
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Jenny Doetjes, and Petra Sleeman
- 23 Cleft Sentences
Jenny Doetjes, Georges Rebuschi, and Annie Rialland
- 24 Subject NP Inversion
Brigitte Kampers-Manhe, Jean-Marie Marandin, Frank Drijkoningen, Jenny Doetjes, and Aafke Hulk.
- Index
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