Towards a proper treatment of coercion phenomena

Jacques Jayez (1) , Danièle Godard (2)

1 CELITH - Centre de linguistique théorique
2 UFRL case7003

The interpretation of corecion constructions (to begin a book) has been recently considered as resulting from the operation of type changing. For instance, a phrase of type o (object) is coerced to a phrase of type e (event) under the influence of the predicate. We show that this procedure encounters empirical difficulties (...)

Mots clés: coercion phenomena; linguistics

Domaines: Linguistique

Jacques Jayez, Danièle Godard. Towards a proper treatment of coercion phenomena. Actes 6th EACL, EACL, pp.168-177, 1993. ⟨halshs-00157218⟩