Morphology and its interfaces: Syntax, semantics and the lexicon
Edited by Dany Amiot, Delphine Tribout, Natalia Grabar, Cédric Patin and Fayssal Tayalati
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 37:2 (2014) vi, 168 pp.
Fayssal Tayalati
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fayssal Tayalati plays a role.
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Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Generative linguistics | Lexicography | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2024 English tough -constructions and their analogues in French and Russian: A parallel corpus investigation Languages in Contrast: Online-First Articles | Article
Evaluative constructions involving tough-predicates (e.g., This hill is difficult to climb) present atypical structure-to-meaning mappings and vary across languages: in some languages (e.g., English/French), speakers typically use so-called tough-constructions (TCs) in which the syntactic… read more
2021 Temperaments, tempers, and temporality: Constructions reveal how speakers of French and English conceptualize human properties Languages in Contrast 21:1, pp. 82–111 | Article
This study focuses on French and English abstract nouns denoting properties that can be ascribed to humans, such as beauty, carefulness and anger. Previous research showed that some but not all of these nouns are licensed in both locative existentials (e.g., There’s an intense anger in Isabella)… read more
2014 Introduction Morphology and its interfaces: Syntax, semantics and the lexicon, Amiot, Dany, Delphine Tribout, Natalia Grabar, Cédric Patin and Fayssal Tayalati (eds.), pp. 185–193 | Article
2013 Adjectifs d’évaluation de comportement Lingvisticæ Investigationes 36:1, pp. 20–55 | Article
The article proposes a unified analysis of Behavior Evaluation Adjectives (BEA), like gentil ‘kind’ or prudent ‘wise’, whether the quality expressed is attributed to a human subject (Tu es vraiment gentil de nous aider ‘You are really kind to help us’) or to his/her behavior (Nous aider est… read more
2009 Pour un traitement unitaire de l’assignation du datif en français Lingvisticæ Investigationes 32:1, pp. 99–123 | Article
The aim of this paper is to propose a unified account of dative assignment for both verbs and adjectives in French. We will show that both types of predicates assign dative case to their second internal argument, provided that this argument is situated in a higher position in the thematic hierarchy… read more