Les constructions Tough  : syntaxe, sémantique et interfaces. Présentation

Tayalati, Fayssal; Mostrov, Vassil; Velde, Danièle Van de

doi:10.3917/lang.218.0007

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2020

DOI: 10.3917/lang.218.0007

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Les constructions Tough : syntaxe, sémantique et interfaces. Présentation

Fayssal Tayalati¹,

Vassil Mostrov²,

Danièle Van de Velde³

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English tough-constructions and their analogues in French and Russian

Tsikulina,

Tayalati,

Soroli

2024

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Evaluative constructions involving tough-predicates (e.g., This hill is difficult to climb) present atypical structure-to-meaning mappings and vary across languages: in some languages (e.g., English/French), speakers typically use so-called tough-constructions (TCs) in which the syntactic subject of the matrix sentence is logically the missing object of the infinitive; in others (e.g., Russian), speakers opt for a variety of functional analogues (e.g., passive, impersonal constructions). The aim of this paper is to explore English TCs involving difficult and easy adjectives, compare them to French and Russian analogues based on a parallel-corpus, and investigate how specific semantic properties (animacy, transitivity, adjective scope) relate to specific (more or less compact) configurations. The results show that French and Russian have similar functional analogues and only partially share the structural properties of English TCs. The findings support a multidimensional account based on the inherent semantic properties of evaluative constructions and their degree of compactness.

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English tough-constructions and their analogues in French and Russian

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Tayalati,

Soroli

2024

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A comparative study of English and Greek tough -movement constructions

Αλεξιαδου¹,

Anagnostopoulou²

2020

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Dans cet article, nous discutons des constructions à mouvement tough en grec, que nous comparons à leurs équivalents anglais. Nous soutenons que les données du grec plaident pour une analyse en termes de ‹génération de base› des constructions de mouvement tough . Nous proposons, en outre, une explication du fait que très peu de prédicats fonctionnent comme des prédicats tough dans cette langue. Enfin, nous abordons la question du changement diachronique qu’ont subi les constructions de mouvements tough en grec, ce qui a entraîné la présence obligatoire d’un clitique dans la proposition enchâssée.

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Tough -movement as a modal structure: The example of English

Guéron¹

2020

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L’interaction du lexique et de la syntaxe est cruciale pour l’analyse des phrases tough -movement (TM) telles que This problem is hard (for me) to solve . Le lexique distingue les prédicats adjectivaux tels que tough/easy/hard qui projettent la structure TM de prédicats tels que eager ou able qui ne le font pas. La syntaxe associe ces prédicats à une structure opérateur-variable de type ‹interrogatif› enchâssée dans une structure prédicative. Pourtant, ces composantes grammaticales ne suffisent pas pour rendre compte de l’interprétation du TM et de ses ressemblances avec d’autres structures. Nous proposons une analyse qui reconnaît le contenu modal de ces prédicats. Ce contenu identifie le TM comme appartenant à un ensemble de structures inspiré par une configuration conceptuelle, un ‹Goal-Directed Trajectory› (trajectoire dirigée vers un but).

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Les constructions Tough : syntaxe, sémantique et interfaces. Présentation

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

English tough-constructions and their analogues in French and Russian

English tough-constructions and their analogues in French and Russian

A comparative study of English and Greek tough -movement constructions

Tough -movement as a modal structure: The example of English

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