Constructions in French

Myriam Bouveret (1) , Dominique Legallois (2)

1 Lattice - Lattice - Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition - UMR 8094
2 CRISCO - Centre de recherche inter-langues sur la signification en contexte

The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for readers who would like to examine how constructional analysis can be applied to a variety of French language phenomena. The eleven papers illustrate the insights generated by combining lexicalist and constructionist approaches, focusing on syntax as a dynamic system and using corpus data from a variety of speech genres. The contributions provide new findings about French usage trends (in linguistics and in psycholinguistics), including insights into new, nonstandard and little studied constructions.

Mots clés: Grammaire de constructions; Syntaxe; Sémantique

Domaines: Linguistique

Myriam Bouveret, Dominique Legallois (Dir.). Constructions in French. John Benjamins, 287 p., 2012, (Constructional Approaches to Language), 978-90-272-0435-6. ⟨10.1075/cal.13⟩. ⟨halshs-01405048⟩