Publications

Publication details [#48567]

Rossari, Corinne and Corina Cojocariu. 2008. Constructions of the type la cause/la raison/la preuve + utterance: Grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, or something else? Journal of Pragmatics 40 (8) : 1435–1454.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse structure | grammaticalization | pragmatics | routine

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

French constructions of the type la cause/la raison/la preuve + utterance should rather be seen as instances of a routinization of complex discourse structures, then as outcomes of grammaticalization or pragmaticalization processes.