The Genitive
Edited by Anne Carlier and Jean-Christophe Verstraete
[Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 5] 2013. vii, 356 pp.
Anne Carlier
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anne Carlier plays a role.
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Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2023 Chapter 5. Presentational clefts, existentials and information structure: A comparative perspective on French and Italian Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions, Sarda, Laure and Ludovica Lena (eds.), pp. 139–179 | Chapter
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
2016 The capricious evolution of the indefinite plural article uns and its relationship with lexical plurality in medieval French Lexical plurals and beyond, Lauwers, Peter and Marie Lammert (eds.), pp. 309–334 | Article
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
2013 Genitive case and genitive constructions: An introduction The Genitive, Carlier, Anne and Jean-Christophe Verstraete (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2013 De: A genitive marker in French? Its grammaticalization path from Latin to French The 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
2007 From Preposition to Article: The Grammaticalization of the French Partitive Studies in Language 31:1, pp. 1–49 | Article