Le préfixe auto-

The French intensifierauto,and the roles ofvand Voice in introducing agents

“…She explains that, in the DP l’autoconsommation des produits par les paysans ‘the self-consumption of the products by the farmers’, the farmers must consume the products that they themselves produced. The contiguity condition captures the fact that the agent-focusing construction is transitive, and that the object is often accompanied by a possessive determiner referring back to the agent (Dugas 1992), as can be seen in (9). If we assume that coreference is an extreme case of contiguity, this condition is satisfied in the reflexive reading.…”

“… 10 The annex of Dugas’s (1992) paper on auto -prefixation includes several performative verbs (e.g. autoadjuger ‘self-award’, autoapprouver ‘self-approve’, autoattribuer ‘self-attribute’, autoconférer ‘self-confer’, autoexempter ‘self-exempt’, autonominer ‘self-nominate’, autoréélire ‘self-reelect’, autopardonner ‘self-forgive’), other punctual events ( autoescamoter ‘self-hide with a sleight of hand’, autoféconder ‘self-impregnate/fertilize’, autoidentifier ‘self-identify’, autolocaliser ‘self-localize’, autoatteindre ‘self-reach’), and two stative verbs ( autoexécrer ‘self-detest’, autosuffire ‘self-suffice’). …”