The pragmatics of left detachment in spoken standard French
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The pragmatics of left detachment in spoken standard French
（Pragmatics & beyond : an interdisciplinary series of language studies, VI:3）
J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1985
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Description
Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c'est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation. The author's observations support a view of LD in French as a particular type of paratactic structure which should be seen primarily as a feature of unplanned discourse. The analysis partly builds on views expressed by Knud Lambrecht in an earlier contribution tot this series.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgments
- 2. 1. Introduction
- 3. 1.1. Purposes of the study
- 4. 1.2. The language of the corpus
- 5. 2. Review of the Literature
- 6. 2.1. Syntactic descriptions and the syntactic-pragmatic correlation hypothesis (SPCH)
- 7. 2.2. Pragmatic descriptions
- 8. 3. The Data-General Observations and Hypotheses
- 9. 3.1. Preliminary observations
- 10. 3.2. Problems with the syntactic-pragmatic correlation hypothesis
- 11. 3.3. Contrastiveness and topic shift
- 12. 3.4. A new hypothesis - in search of LDs of minimal pragmatic motivation
- 13. 3.5. Alternative syntactic analyses
- 14. 3.6. The 'domain' of LD: sentence-topic and discourse-topic
- 15. 4. Pronominal Detachments
- 16. 4.1. 'Personal' pronouns: first person: moi, nous
- 17. 4.2. 'Nonpersonal' pronoun: ca
- 18. 5. Lexical NP Detachments
- 19. 5.1. With nonpersonal anaphor
- 20. 5.2. With personal anaphor: NP il/elle ..
- 21. 5.3. NP-LDs with nonsubject anaphors
- 22. 5.4. The definiteness constraint
- 23. 6. Special Cases
- 24. 6.1. 'Topicalization' and 'Focus Movement' in spoken French
- 25. 6.2. No-anaphor LDs
- 26. 6.3. Double LDs
- 27. 7. Conclusion
- 28. Notes
- 29. References
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