Les pluriels internes féminins de l’arabe tunisien
L’objectif de cet article est de rendre compte des pluriels simples et doubles de l’arabe dans le cadre de la théorie des nominaux et de l’individuation de Borer (2005). En particulier, nous étudions ces pluriels dans les constructions où l’accord entre le verbe et le pluriel est déviant et faisons quatre propositions 1) les pluriels internes sont féminins (et singuliers) à un niveau sous-jacent dans les contextes où l’accord est déviant, ne représentant donc pas, contrairement aux apparences, d’échec d’appariement ; 2) lorsque les pluriels internes s’accordent avec le verbe, une interprétation distributive ou collective est établie, et lorsque les pluriels internes ne s’accordent pas avec le verbe, seule l’interprétation collective peut être générée, résultat de la fonction atomisante du féminin que l’on retrouve indépendamment dans le contexte du singulatif ; 3) le pluriel interne féminin constitue la base des doubles pluriels, si bien que ces derniers font surface à un niveau supérieur dans la structure nominale, offrant donc un deuxième type de pluriel, pourvu d’une fonction comptable, alors que celui généré sous la tête Div a une fonction atomisante ; 4) les règles que nous décrivons sont tout à fait prévisibles et productives, ce qui laisse supposer que les pluriels étudiés dans notre article ne sont pas des pluriels lexicaux.
The aim of this paper is to account for single and double plurals of Arabic under Borer’s nominal theory of division (2005). In particular, we study these plurals in constructions where the agreement between the verb and the plural is deflected and make four proposals : 1) broken plurals are feminine (and singular) at an underlying level in contexts where the agreement is deflected, thus not representing failure of agreement, contrary to appearances; 2) when the broken plurals agree with the verb, distributive or collective interpretations arise, and when the broken plurals do not agree with the verb, only the collective interpretation can be generated as a result of the atomizing function of the feminine gender that is independently found in the context of the singulative ; 3) the feminine broken plural constitutes the basis of the double plurals, so that the later surface at a higher level in the nominal structure, thus providing a second type of plural, with a counting function, while the plural generated under Div has an atomizing function; 4) the rules that we describe are quite predictable and productive, suggesting that the plurals studied in our paper are not lexical plurals.
Article outline
- Introduction
- 1.Un pluriel interne féminin
- 2.Les pluriels doubles
- 3.Conclusion
- Notes
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Article language: French
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