La modalité sous tous ses aspects: introduction

Vogeleer, Svetlana; Borillo, Andrée; Vuillaume, Marcel; Vetters, Carl

doi:10.1163/9789004484382_002

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“… *Claude se met à posséder une belle collection de boîtes de camembert. (Saunier 1999: 276) ‘Claude starts owning a fine collection of Camembert boxes.’ *Tout le monde se met à le savoir, que tu as réussi tes examens. (Saunier 1999: 276) ‘Everyone starts to know that you passed your exams.’ *Jean se met à être capitaine.…”

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“…(Saunier 1999: 276) ‘Claude starts owning a fine collection of Camembert boxes.’ *Tout le monde se met à le savoir, que tu as réussi tes examens. (Saunier 1999: 276) ‘Everyone starts to know that you passed your exams.’ *Jean se met à être capitaine. (Lamiroy 1987: 293) ‘Jean starts being a captain.’ *Josyane s'est mise à sentir des douleurs hier.…”

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“…With regard to the second constraint, it has been noticed that SMA is usually associated with adverbs of velocity and suddenness (e.g., soudain, tout à coup, brusquement , etc. ‘suddenly, abruptly’) (Coseriu 1976, Peeters 1993, Saunier 1999) and that this construction marks a more “brutal” inception than COMA which generates a more “attenuated” inceptive value (Franckel 1989: 147). Sato (1994) goes so far as to suggest that the distribution of this type of adverbs is exclusively reserved for SMA, in other words that they cannot appear with COMA, as shown in (3).…”

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“…Sato (1994) goes so far as to suggest that the distribution of this type of adverbs is exclusively reserved for SMA, in other words that they cannot appear with COMA, as shown in (3). Peeters (1993) and Saunier (1999) observe however that the use of adverbs of suddenness is not systematic and that opposite evidence exists. As for the negation expressed in (4), Franckel (1989: 144) judges that the negation would be very strongly constrained, if not even impossible for SMA.…”

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“…As for the negation expressed in (4), Franckel (1989: 144) judges that the negation would be very strongly constrained, if not even impossible for SMA. While the negation constraint is rejected by Peeters (1993: 43), Franckel (1989) and Saunier (1999) explain the absence of negation by the aoristic functioning of SMA 5…”

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French ingressives and (phasal) aspect: A frame-semantic corpus-based analysis

Verroens,

De Cuypere

2023

Can. J. Linguist.

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This article compares the usage of commencer à ‘to begin’+Vinf. and se mettre à ‘to start’ + Vinf. in modern French. Using a corpus sample of 2000 observations, we examined the effect of Adverbial complementation, of Event type (aspect), and of Tense. Based on a mixed-effects logistic regression analysis, we found evidence for Event type, where se mettre à is associated with activities, and Tense, where se mettre à seems to be associated with passé simple, futur proche and subjonctif present. On the other hand, commencer à is associated with plus-que-parfait and indicatif imparfait. We discuss the results in the frame-semantic model of Croft (2012). We make the case that commencer à can have the profile of an achievement or that of an accomplishment, while se mettre à manifests only one profile, that of an achievement. Our results support a one-component approach to aspect in which the result of the interaction between grammatical aspect and lexical aspect can be attributed to the same aspectual contour.

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