The Syntax of French de-N' Phrases

Anne Abeillé; Olivier Bonami; Danièle Godard; Jesse Tseng

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The Syntax of French de-N' Phrases

Anne Abeillé^a^, 1, Olivier Bonami^b^, 1, Danièle Godard^c^, 1, Jesse Tseng ()^c^, 2

11th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar - HPSG'2004 (2004) 6-26

Abstract: Of all French functional elements, the form _de_ has without question the widest variety of uses, and presents the greatest challenge for linguistic description and analysis. Historically a preposition, it still has a number of prepositional uses in modern French, but in many contexts it calls for an altogether different treatment. We begin by outlining a general distinction between "oblique" and "non-oblique" uses of _de_. We then develop a detailed account of constructions where _de_ combines with an N'. We provide a unitary analysis of _de_ in three constructions (quantifier extraction, "quantification at a distance", and negative contexts) which have been not been considered to be related in previous accounts.

a – UNIVERSITE PARIS 7
b – UNIVERSITE PARIS 4
c – CNRS
1: Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF)
CNRS : UMR7110 – Université Paris VII - Paris Diderot
2: LANGUE ET DIALOGUE (INRIA Lorraine - LORIA)
INRIA – CNRS : UMR7503 – Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy I – Université Nancy II – Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL)

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