Constructions in French

Edited by Myriam Bouveret and Dominique Legallois
Université de Rouen / Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for readers who would like to examine how constructional analysis can be applied to a variety of French language phenomena. The eleven papers illustrate the insights generated by combining lexicalist and constructionist approaches, focusing on syntax as a dynamic system and using corpus data from a variety of speech genres. The contributions provide new findings about French usage trends (in linguistics and in psycholinguistics), including insights into new, nonstandard and poorly studied constructions.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 13]  2012.  vi, 287 pp.
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Table of Contents

Cognitive linguistics and the notion of construction in French studies: An overview
Myriam Bouveret and Dominique Legallois
1–20
Part I. Verbal constructions
Verb typology: Between construction and lexicon
Dominique Willems
23–48
Is there a SE FAIRE V-er passive construction?
Sophie Raineri
49–70
Être une/Faire partie de: Not a piece of cake
Philippe Gréa
71–98
GIVE frames and constructions in French
Myriam Bouveret
99–124
Part II. Acquisition of verbal constructions
Constructing ‘basic’ verbal constructions: A longitudinal study of the blossoming of constructions with six frequent verbs
Aliyah Morgenstern and Christophe Parisse
127–154
L2 acquisition of verbal constructions: Expressing motion in L2 French and English
Sarah Berthaud and Stanislava Antonijevic-Elliott
155–174
Part III. Semantics, pragmatics and constructions
The impersonal value of demonstrative and middle constructions
Michel Achard
177–200
“C’est de la bombe!”: Qualitative count-to-mass conversion in French copular subject-predicate constructions
Guillaume Desagulier
201–232
Le prix est (de) 15 euros: On copular constructions expressing quantification in French
Peter Lauwers
233–256
From grammaticalization to expressive constructions: The case of histoire de + inf.
Dominique Legallois
257–282
Index of constructions
283–284
Index
285–288

Subjects

Benjamins Subject classification

BIC Subject

CF/2ADF: Linguistics/French

BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2012036086
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