nam a22 c 4500 pb.ii.6/540009737 nljbp 250625064204.5 cr ||||||||||| 250418s1981 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 0082204077 9789027280794 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp PC2395 447 19 CF bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Lambrecht, Knud author Topic, Antitopic and Verb Agreement in Non-Standard French Knud Lambrecht Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1981 ©1981 1 online resource (vii, 113 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Pragmatics & Beyond 0166-6258 II:6 Includes bibliographical references. 0. Introduction -- 1. The Standard/Non-Standard Distinction in Modern French -- 2. Clitic pronouns as Agreement Markers -- 2.1. Properties of Clitic Pronouns in Standard French and in Non-Standard French -- 2.2. Summary -- 2.3. Clitic Pronouns and the Verb -- 3. Verb Agreement in Non-Standard French -- 3.0. Introduction -- 3.1. Topic Agreement -- 3.2. Antitopic Agreement The author describes and explains the syntactic and pragmatic properties of the nominal and pronominal elements in sentences of the types Ces Romains ils sont fous and Ils sont fous, ces Romains, which, in spite of their frequent occurrence, have so far received little attention among linguists and grammarians. He argues that far from having the marginal status of a linguistic anomaly, the cooccurrence in the same clause of coreferential nouns and pronouns is one formal manifestation of an important functional principle in modern French: the encoding of a topic-comment relationship in the surface structure of the sentence. The pronouns in sentences such as the ones mentioned are interpreted as agreement markers. The syntactic and semantic differences between topics and anti-topics are analyzed. Provided by publisher. Pragmatics Romance linguistics Syntax Lambrecht, Knud author Paperback version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1981 9789027225269 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/pb.ii.6 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027280794