A Construction-based Analysis of Verbless Relative Adjuncts in French and Romanian

Gabriela Bîlbîie (1) , Frédéric Laurens (1)

1 LLF UMR7110 - Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle

French and Romanian verbless relative adjuncts are incidental adjuncts which have been described as elliptical relative clauses. We show that this analysis is not empirically adequate and propose an alternative non-elliptical analysis. We analyze verbless relative adjuncts as sentential fragments whose head can be a cluster of phrases. They are marked by a functor phrase which displays selection properties with respect to the head phrase and makes an essential contribution to the semantics of the adjunct. The analysis relies on the interaction of grammatical constraints introduced by various linguistic objects, as well as on a constructional analysis of verbless relative adjuncts distinguishing several subtypes.

Mots clés: C-ACTI

Domaines: Linguistique

Gabriela Bîlbîie, Frédéric Laurens. A Construction-based Analysis of Verbless Relative Adjuncts in French and Romanian. The 16th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2009, Göttingen, Germany, France. ⟨halshs-00751073⟩