Une coordination particulière

Les syntagmes N conj N en français

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ID4385093
AuthorsJasper Roodenburg
Year2005
Volume160
Issue4
Pages93-109
Publication date2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLangages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0458-726X • E-ISSN: 1958-9549
PublisherCAIRN (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3917/lang.160.0093
OpenAlexW4253469762
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited12

Jasper Roodenburg: French NPs of the form N Conj N. This article examines French NPs of the form N Conj N (Il a rangé livres et cahiers ' He put away books and notebooks'). Since French does not allow NPs without a determiner as semantic arguments of a predicate in a general way, it is clear that their acceptability derives from the presence of the coordinating conjunction. an intriguing phenomenon. Moreover, such NPs raise serious problems for the widespread assumption according to which French is a language with no " Bare Nouns". On the basis of a cross-linguistic analysis comparing both their distributional and their semantic properties with their (non)-coordinated equivalents in Romance languages like Italian and Germanie languages like English, it is shown that the présence of the conjunction leads to striking and unexpecled similarities of the French N Conj N construction with Bare Nouns of the Germanie type

Conjunction (astronomy · Determiner · Epistemology · French · German · Germanic languages · Linguistics · Noun · Phenomenon · Physics · Predicate (mathematical logic · Proper noun · Romance languages · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · History · Philosophy

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