Abstract. Some terms for family members, such as Maman and Papa, have common characteristics, different from other "ordinary" nouns. We call them kinship terms of address, distinguishing them from "ordinary" kinship terms such as mère and père. Without a determiner, they automatically designate the family members of the speaker. They are also used in non-vocative form. In this case, they are not detached from the clause but belong to it, functioning like its obligatory components. However, in this non-vocative usage, the referents of kinship terms of address are more varied. For example, in Comment va maman? 'How is Mom?', maman 'Mom' can be the equivalent of ma mère 'my mother,' but the question, if addressed to a child, can also refer to the child's mother.
Résumé. On considérera la façon dont la cohésion textuelle est réalisée lexicalement à partir du cas des phrases nominales dont le nom en position frontale n'a pas de déterminant (« nom nu »). Nous montrerons que si les noms nus dans la phrase nominale sont en règle générale abstraits, ils peuvent être concrets et que dans tous les cas ils conservent pleinement leur nature substantive. Au nombre des relations qu'entretient ce nom avec le cotexte antérieur, deux cas sont prépondérants : la répétition et la reprise par un hyperonyme. Nous nous proposons de rendre compte des autres cas en distinguant trois types d'enchaînement : rétrospectif, présentatif et prospectif. L'enchaînement présentatif se distingue en ce que (i) le nom nu actualise un nouvel élément, (ii) la phrase est le plus souvent courte et (iii) l'insertion d'un élément devant le nom nu est possible.Abstract. Lexical cohesion in nominal sentences that include nouns without determiners. We will consider the way in which textual cohesion is achieved lexically in the case of nominal sentences with a noun in the frontal position that has no determiner ("bare noun"). We will show that, while the bare noun in the nominal sentence is generally abstract, it can be concrete, and that in any case, it retains its full substantive nature. Among the relationships that this noun has with the previous context, two cases are predominant: repetition and replacement by a hypernym. We propose to report on the other cases by distinguishing three types of sequencing: retrospective, presentative, and prospective. The presentative sequence differs in that (i) the bare noun updates a new element, (ii) the sentence is usually short and (iii) it is possible to insert an element in front of the bare noun.
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