Quatre prépositions causales du français

Leur sémantisme et cooccurrence

Lidija Iordanskaja | Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de Montréal

N. Arbatchewsky-Jumarie | Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de Montréal

The paper studies the meaning and the cooccurrence of four French prepositions used to express the causal relation: À CAUSE DE, SOUS L’EFFET DE, DE, and PAR. Each preposition is characterized along the three following aspects: (1) the type of causation it expresses (direct? with contact? with unity of time?); (2) semantic restrictions on the complement of the preposition — the noun phrase that denotes the cause, as well as on the phrase governing the preposition and denoting the effect; (3) the preposition’s lexical and syntactic restricted cooccurrence. The lexicographic descriptions of the four prepositions are presented.

Article language: French

Published online: 24 January 2001
https://doi.org/10.1075/li.23.1.05ior

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