This paper reports on a study of the attributes associated with the direct or indirect object. These attributes are of the kind:On a élu Marie présidenteCet individu a été classé comme dangereuxJe le vois déçuThe list of verbs operating with this construction comes from an exhaustive dictionary of… read more
The linguistic fund, that is, the actual lexical inventory of a language, is always considerably larger than the sum total of the contents of dictionaries for that language. It corresponds to all the possibilities of derivation and compounding — with the associated word-formation rules. The… read more
The two 'A' of Québec French The status of two 'A's, one of the major points of interest in the phonology of Québec French, is debated in this article. After the revision of the current literature on the subject, the authors propose a drastically new analysis which involves the whole structure of… read more