Laurent Gosselin

List of John Benjamins publications for which Laurent Gosselin plays a role.

The central notion in L’Étranger is that of the Absurd. However, it is not meant as a simple representation of experiencing absurdity, because the novel would then have an unequivocal interpretation, in contradiction with the ambivalent experience that it is supposed to express. We show that the… read more
Cet article traite la question du choix du mode, indicatif ou du subjonctif, dans les complétives objet en français. Une attention particulière est portée sur les verbes recteurs, la négation, l’interrogation, l’impératif, la subordination hypothétique … Nous montrons que les hypothèses actuelles… read more
Gosselin, Laurent 2012 Itération et agglomérats de procèsRevue Romane 47:1, pp. 25–48 | Article
Some examples of iterative aspect, especially in French literature, show a highly complex structure : the iteration does not concern a single eventuality, but a combination of eventualities. In order to deal with these facts, we introduce a new category in the grammar of aspect : the cluster of… read more
This paper deals with the problem of the opposition between restrictive and descriptive relative clauses. The syntactic and/or semantic nature and validity of this opposition are discussed. Based on recent semantic analyses which contest the necessity and the possibility of choosing in every case… read more