TY - JOUR A1 - Abeillé, Anne A1 - Bonami, Olivier A1 - Godard, Danièle A1 - Tseng, Jesse T1 - The syntax of French N' phrases T2 - Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) N2 - 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. KW - Französisch KW - Präposition KW - Nominalphrase Y1 - 2004 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70954 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-709546 SN - 1535-1793 VL - 11.2004 IS - 1 SP - 6 EP - 26 PB - CSLI Publications CY - Stanford, CA ER -