Christelle Lacassain-Lagoin

List of John Benjamins publications for which Christelle Lacassain-Lagoin plays a role.

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Lacassain-Lagoin, Christelle 2018  See / Witness and the ‘setting-subject construction’: An egocentric or anthropocentric perspective? An animacy- and subjectivity-based approach From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 271–301 | Article
Perception verbs prototypically occur with a grammatical subject NP referring to a person. However, see and witness also license an inanimate grammatical subject, more precisely a spatial or temporal setting, in a “setting-subject construction” (Langacker 1991, 2008). The present study addresses… read more