A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students
Paul Boucher
[Not in series, 216] 2018. xiv, 297 pp.
Paul Boucher
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paul Boucher plays a role.
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Subjects Romance linguistics | Translation Studies
Articles
2010 Wh-questions in French and English: Mapping syntax to information structure Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure, Breul, Carsten and Edward Göbbel (eds.), pp. 101–138 | Article
As opposed to English, French wh-questions can take a wide variety of forms. I identify four basic patterns: (a) wh- in situ: Vous êtes allés où?; (b) wh- raised, verb in situ: Où vous êtes allés?; (c) est-ce que insertion: Où est-ce que vous êtes allés?; (d) subject-clitic inversion: Où êtes-vous… read more
2006 Mapping function to form: Adjective positions in French Ordre des mots et topologie de la phrase française, Gerdes, Kim et Claude Muller (dir.), pp. 43–60 | Article
The position and meaning of Modern French adjectives is discussed in the generative syntax framework. The classical analysis of Cinque (1995), by N-raising to some functional position, is rejected for a number of reasons, notably its inability to account for changes in position since the Old… read more
2003 1. Determiner Phrases in Old and Modern French From NP to DP: Volume 1: The syntax and semantics of noun phrases, Coene, Martine and Yves D’hulst (eds.), pp. 47–69 | Chapter