L'emploi « possessif » de l'article défini en français

Guéron, Jacqueline

doi:10.3406/lfr.1983.6413

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“…*Les yeux lui étincelaient the eyes him.dat burn the eyes him.dat sparkled (His eyes were burning) Nevertheless, according to J. Guéron (1983Guéron ( , 1985, the examples (4a-b) do not violate the bound anaphora hypothesis, but can be explained by the fact that the subject is a deep object raised to subject position. In line with L. Burzio (1981), she argues that the structure in (4a-b) is unaccusative.…”

Section: The Inalienable Possession Hypothesis Vs the Unaccusativitymentioning

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Verbs of pain and accusative subjects in Romanian

Peteghem¹

2016

Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa

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Verbs of pain in Romanian such as durea ‘ache’, ustura ‘burn’, and furnica ‘itch’ assign the accusative to their experiencer arguments, unlike other Romance languages, where the experiencer is dative-marked. The use of the accusative raises interesting problems in that it gives rise to a mismatch between the hypothesis on the syntax of inalienability in Romance in Generative Grammar (Guéron 1985) on the one hand and Burzio’s (1986) Generalization on the other hand. This article shows that the inversed nominative NP denoting the body part does not show subject properties, and that the accusative experiencer in sentence initial position does not show object properties, but instead displays subject properties, just like the dative in similar constructions. However, the difference between accusative and dative subjects in this construction is that the accusative is assigned to verb arguments and is a lexical case, whereas the dative is assigned to external possessors and is an inherent case. Surprisingly, the argument status of the accusative experiencer makes it even more subject-like than the dative experiencer, which is an adjunct and is dependent on the presence of an internal argument triggering verb agreement, whereas the accusative subject can also occur without an internal argument or with a locative PP.

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Section: The Inalienable Possession Hypothesis Vs the Unaccusativitymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…1 The syntax of inalienable possession J. Guéron (1983Guéron ( , 1985Guéron ( , 2003, J.-R. Vergnaud & M.L. Zubizaretta (1992) and J.…”

Section: The Inalienable Possession Hypothesis Vs the Unaccusativitymentioning

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Verbs of pain and accusative subjects in Romanian

Peteghem¹

2016

Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa

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“…We support the assumption that the generation and composition of meaning of expletive articles and long weak definites is part of syntax. In Section 3 we discuss three approximations to the semantics of these constructions: Guéron's (1983;1986; anaphor binding, Vergnaud and Zubizarreta's (1992) non-denoting determiner and type-denoting noun, and Le Bruyn's (2014) unicity of the determiner and homonymy of the noun. In this section, we exclude a generic-type interpretation of the noun as the cause for expletiveness of the determiner.…”

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The definite article in Romance expletives and long weak definites

Espinal

Cyrino

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper focuses on some issues involving expletive articles and long weak definites in Romance (mainly Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Catalan), in comparison to DPs that elicit a strong reading. We show the similarities between expletive definites and long weak definites, and we argue for an analysis in common to other polarity items in terms of polarity sensitivity. We reach the conclusion that the definite article in Romance comes in two variants: the referentially unique variant (to be translated as the semantic iota operator) and the polar variant, formally characterized with an abstract [+σ] feature, that encodes a weak bound reading (to be semantically translated by an existential operator).

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“…However, we wonder whether we could extend the analysis to other phenomena of weak deiniteness such as possessive and relational weak deinites (e.g. the corner of a busy intersection) (Guéron 1983;Vergnaud and Zubizarreta 1992;Ojeda 1993;Poesio 1994;Barker 2005; Le Bruyn to appear). How fruitful would it be to treat these deinites as kind referring expressions?…”

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Weak definites refer to kinds

Guevara¹,

Zwarts²

2013

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This paper presents an analysis of weak deinites (e.g. to answer the phone) as introduced by Carlson and Sussman (2005). The proposal is that these deinites refer to kinds, which are instantiated by ordinary individuals when they combine with object-level predicates. This combination is made possible by a lexical rule that lifts object-level predicates to kind-level predicates, and incorporates into their denotation a predicate that represents the stereotypical usages of the kinds. This analysis accounts for most of the peculiar properties of weak deinites.

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L'emploi « possessif » de l'article défini en français

Cited by 32 publications

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Verbs of pain and accusative subjects in Romanian

Verbs of pain and accusative subjects in Romanian

The definite article in Romance expletives and long weak definites

Weak definites refer to kinds

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