Michel Achard

Biographic Data

ID3777720
NAMEMichel Achard
GIVEN NAMESMichel
FAMILY NAMEAchard
SIGNATUREACHARD M
AFFILIATIONSRice University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX1

  • Fields and settings

    Open AccessMichel AchardARTICLECognitive Linguistics2010References: 2

    This paper argues that in the context of the copular complement construction (est possible que ‘is possible that’ for example), French possesses two impersonal constructions respectively introduced by il ‘it’ and ça (c') ‘this’. This analysis runs counter to most syntactic accounts which structurally distinguish impersonals (il) from dislocated (ça) constructions. Two arguments are proposed in defense of the two impersonals analysis. First, follo…

  • The distribution of French intransitive predicates

    Open AccessMichel AchardARTICLELinguistics2009References: 12

    This article investigates the distribution of intransitive predicates in French. It argues that within each individual construction, the constraints that govern predicate selection are determined by the necessary semantic compatibility between the participating predicates and the construction itself. This “local” analysis based on the lexical semantics of specific verbs and constructions contrasts with most previous accounts that follow the Unacc…

  • Cognitive Linguistics

    Francisco J Ruiz De Mendoza Ibáñez, Gitte Kristiansen et al.BOOKCognitive Linguistics2008

  • Cognitive Linguistics

    Open AccessSusanne Niemeier, Michel AchardEDITORARTICLECognitive Linguistics2001

  • The Distribution of French Raising Constructions

    Open AccessMichel AchardARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…2000

    Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)

  • Two causation/perception constructions in French

    Open AccessMichel AchardARTICLECognitive Linguistics1996

  • Perspective and syntactic realization

    Open AccessMichel AchardARTICLELinguistics1996Cited by: 1

    Dans le cadre de la grammaire cognitive, l'A. analyse des constructions francaises avec complements, et notamment la distribution des complements infinitifs/finis dans ces constructions. Il montre que la realisation syntaxique du complement s'explique par la perspective imposee a la scene du complement, la perspective se referant a la position avantageuse d'ou la scene est conceptualisee et a la situation d'observation entre le conceptualisateur …

  • Causative Structures in French

    Open AccessMichel AchardARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…1993

    Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Semantic Typology and Semantic Universals (1993)