Dominique Legallois

List of John Benjamins publications for which Dominique Legallois plays a role.

Title

Constructions in French

Edited by Myriam Bouveret and Dominique Legallois

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 13] 2012. vi, 287 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

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
Bouveret, Myriam and Dominique Legallois 2012 Cognitive linguistics and the notion of construction in French studies: An overviewConstructions in French, Bouveret, Myriam and Dominique Legallois (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article
Legallois, Dominique 2012 Linguistique de l’événement mescalinien chez Henri MichauxRevue Romane 47:1, pp. 144–159 | Article
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
Legallois, Dominique 2012 From grammaticalization to expressive constructions: The case of histoire de + inf.Constructions in French, Bouveret, Myriam and Dominique Legallois (eds.), pp. 257–282 | Article
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