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Article In: Constructions Disloquées: Descriptions, modélisations, approches contrastives
Edited by Alexander Guryev, Florence Lefeuvre and Nathalie Rossi-Gensane
[Lingvisticæ Investigationes 49:1] 2026

Jean-Yves lui il cuisine

La double dislocation du sujet en français informel

 | Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) | UCLouvain
 | Université de Szeged
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Article language: French

Résumé
Cette contribution analyse les doubles dislocations du sujet (syntagme nominal lexical + pronom disjoint + pronom clitique) en français informel, en les comparant aux dislocations à gauche « prototypiques » (syntagme nominal lexical + pronom clitique) et aux constructions à pronom disjoint (syntagme nominal lexical + pronom disjoint). À partir d’un corpus de 623 occurrences au total, nous montrons que les doubles dislocations ont une préférence nette pour les référents humains, expriment systématiquement un contraste explicite, et signalent fréquemment un changement de topique.
Abstract
Jean-Yves lui il cuisine: Double Subject Dislocation in Informal French
This paper analyses double subject dislocations (lexical noun phrase + strong pronoun + clitic pronoun) in informal French, comparing them to “prototypical” left dislocations (lexical noun phrase + clitic pronoun) and constructions with a strong pronoun (lexical noun phrase + strong pronoun). Based on a corpus of 623 occurrences in total, we show that double dislocations display a clear preference for human referents, systematically express explicit contrast, and frequently indicate a topic shift.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 1.Bilan des recherches précédentes
    • 1.1SN lexical + pronom clitique
    • 1.2SN lexical + pronom disjoint
  • 2.Présentation du corpus
  • 3.Analyse de corpus
    • 3.1Reprise pronominale
    • 3.2Animéité
    • 3.3Contrastivité
    • 3.4Accessibilité référentielle et continuité topicale
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliographie
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