We revisit in this chapter the status and meaning of the French Ditransitive Transfer Construction. We show that the construction allows four interpretations that can be accounted for by the antonymous Meta-Predicates give, take, leave and keep. But how can the same construction be at the origin… read more
Misérable Miracle by Henri Michaux, is not only a poetic account of mescalinian experiments : in our opinion, the book also gives rise to a semiotic thinking on the notion of event. The paper is devoted to a detailed investigation of the manner in which 1) words — thanks to their iconic… read more
My concern is the relationships between grammar and expressivity which have always remained represented a minority, if not a marginal, interest in linguistics. The paper deals with the construction ‘P, histoire de inf.’ (Prends quelques jours de repos, histoire de te changer les idées ‘take a few… read more