The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French
Betsy K. Barnes
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:3] 1985. viii, 123 pp.
Betsy K. Barnes
List of John Benjamins publications for which Betsy K. Barnes plays a role.
Title
Subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Articles
1992 John Oldham's Satiric Poetry and the Beast Fable Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society, Bennani, Benjamin (ed.), pp. 45–54 | Article
1985 A Functional Explanation of French Nonlexical Datives Studies in Language 9:2, pp. 159–195 | Article
The unity of French lexical and nonlexical uses of the dative clitic is made apparent by a functional analysis according to which the dative clitic always represents a 'theme' of the sentence, where thematicity is defined as greater relative saliency based on certain purely semantic (not pragmatic)… read more
1980 The Notion of 'Dative' in Linguistic Theory and the Grammar of French Lingvisticæ Investigationes 4:2, pp. 245–292 | Article