Anne Carlier

List of John Benjamins publications for which Anne Carlier plays a role.

Title

The Genitive

Edited by Anne Carlier and Jean-Christophe Verstraete

Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Presentational c’è / il y a clefts in Italian and French have been argued to differ from the existential and locative constructions they derive from by their syntactic, semantic and information-structural properties: they would invariably convey sentence-focus. In the present study, we argue for… read more
The indefinite plural article uns in medieval French conjoins the features of unity and plurality. Because of its grammatical nature, uns is not restricted to lexical plurals, but combines in a productive way to nouns having a regular singular-plural alternation in order to create a complex… read more
Carlier, Anne and Jean-Christophe Verstraete 2013 Genitive case and genitive constructions: An introductionThe Genitive, Carlier, Anne and Jean-Christophe Verstraete (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
Carlier, Anne, Michèle Goyens and Béatrice Lamiroy 2013 De: A genitive marker in French? Its grammaticalization path from Latin to FrenchThe Genitive, Carlier, Anne and Jean-Christophe Verstraete (eds.), pp. 141–216 | Article
This paper deals with the evolution of the genitive case from Latin to Old and Middle French, and from Middle French to Modern French. The loss of morphological case inflection in French raises the question whether the category of the genitive is still a relevant notion. The authors claim it is, by… read more