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Particles have no specific lexical function per se and must be associated with another word or phrase to impart meaning. Thus, they develop manifold forms of polyfunctionality. They can express emotion, and when used interactively in everyday situations, they are dependent upon the particular features of the context. While the German language uses particles extensively, French more commonly uses alternative devices to expressa speaker's attitude toward his or her utterance, as will be shown by the example of ja in the speeches of the narrator and the characters of the novel 'The Call of the Toad' by Günter Grass.
French and Romanian verbless relative adjuncts are incidental adjuncts which have been described as elliptical relative clauses. We show that this analysis is not empirically adequate and propose an alternative non-elliptical analysis. We analyze verbless relative adjuncts as sentential fragments whose head can be a cluster of phrases. They are marked by a functor phrase which displays selection properties with respect to the head phrase and makes an essential contribution to the semantics of the adjunct. The analysis relies on the interaction of grammatical constraints introduced by various linguistic objects, as well as on a constructional analysis of verbless relative adjuncts distinguishing several subtypes.
Leaving aside elliptical coordinations, it is striking that no agreement has been reached on the structure of basic coordinate constructions. We propose that:
- coordinate constructions are structurally asymmetric: the conjunction makes a subconstituent with one of the conjuncts.
- such constituents can have several functions: coordinate daughter, adjunct daughter or main clause.
In order to show that some conjuncts should be analysed as adjuncts, we focus on asymmetric cases of coordination, in which the order of the conjuncts cannot be reversed, taking examples from French, Welsh and Korean. We present an HPSG analysis which treats the coordinating conjunctions as weak heads, with lexical subtypes, and coordinate phrases as multi-headed constructions, with different subtypes.
It has often been argued that Non-Constituent Coordinations involve ellipsis. Focussing in this paper on so-called 'Argument Cluster Coordination', we provide empirical evidence drawn from French against such elliptical analyses. We then sketch an alternative approach within HPSG, allowing non-standard constituents to be conjoined in the scope of some shared predicate. While such non-standard constituents are generally obtained by relaxing phrase structure, we propose analyzing them as non-headed constructions, deriving their unusual properties from the interplay of two different sets of constraints: those imposed by coordination and those imposed by predicates that select such clusters as arguments.
It has been shown that visual cues play a crucial role in the perception of vowels and consonants. Conflicting consonantal stimuli presented in the visual and auditory modalities can even result in the emergence of a third perceptual unit (McGurk effect). From a developmental point of view, several studies report that newborns can associate the image of a face uttering a given vowel to the auditory signal corresponding to this vowel; visual cues are thus used by the newborns. Despite the large number of studies carried out with adult speakers and newborns, very little work has been conducted with preschool-aged children. This contribution is aimed at describing the use of auditory and visual cues by 4 and 5-year-old French Canadian speakers, compared to adult speakers, in the identification of voiced consonants. Audiovisual recordings of a French Canadian speaker uttering the sequences [aba], [ada], [aga], [ava], [ibi], [idi], [igi], [ivi] have been carried out. The acoustic and visual signals have been extracted and analysed so that conflicting and non-conflicting stimuli, between the two modalities, were obtained. The resulting stimuli were presented as a perceptual test to eight 4 and 5-year-old French Canadian speakers and ten adults in three conditions: visual-only, auditory-only, and audiovisual. Results show that, even though the visual cues have a significant effect on the identification of the stimuli for adults and children, children are less sensitive to visual cues in the audiovisual condition. Such results shed light on the role of multimodal perception in the emergence and the refinement of the phonological system in children.
This paper proposes an HPSG account of the French tense and aspect system, focussing on the analysis of the passé simple (simple past) and imparfait (imperfective) tenses and their interaction with aspectually sensitive adjuncts. Starting from de Swart's (1998) analysis of the semantics of tense and aspect, I show that while the proposed semantic representations are appropriate, the analysis of implicit aspectual operators as coercion operators is inadequate.
The proposed HPSG analysis relies on Minimal Recursion Semantics to relate standard syntactic structures with de Swart-style semantic representations. The analysis has two crucial features: first, it assumes that the semantic contribution of tense originates in the verb's semantic representation, despite the fact that tense can get wide scope over other semantic elements. Second, it allows the occurrence of implicit aspectual operators to be controlled by the verb's inflectional class, which accounts for their peculiar distribution.
The treatment of French causatives and pronominal affixes outlined in Miller and Sag (1997) and Abeillé et al. (1998) is notable for its comprehensive coverage and analytic detail, but it relies on a number of ad hoc features and types that have little empirical justification. We sketch a new treatment of the same data set, which eliminates multiple lexical entries for the causative, as well as a number of other undesirable analytic devices. Our account builds on a long-standing observation that seeming irregularities in the system of case assignment to the causee of faire are not in fact exceptional, but determined by the general case assignment behavior of transitive verbs. This generalization, first incorporated into an HPSG analysis by Bratt (1990), was abandoned in subsequent HPSG work that sought to expand the coverage of French beyond that of Bratt's analysis. Our goal here is to show that broad coverage need not come at the expense of linguistically significant generalizations.
This paper investigates the structure and agreement of coordinated binominals in the form Det N1 et N2 in French. We provide corpus data and experimental data to show that different strategies exist, depending on their readings: singular Det for joint reading (mon collègue et ami, 'my.MSG colleague.MSG and friend.MSG'), plural Det agreement (mes frère et soeur 'my.PL brother.MSG and sister.FSG') or closest conjunct agreement (mon nom et prénom, 'my.MSG surname.MSG and first name.MSG') for split reading. These results challenge previous syntactic analyses of binominals (Le Bruyn and de Swart, 2014), stating that Det combines with N1, forming a DP and the later coordinates with N2. We then propose an HPSG analysis to account for French binominals.
In this paper, we provide a novel account of French causatives that crucially derives the core properties of the construction inside-out from the downstairs lexical verb to the causative verb, rather than outside-in, as is commonly assumed by argument composition (Miller & Sag, 1997; Abeillé & Godard, 1997; Abeillé et al., 1998). We shall argue on the basis of clitic trapping (Miller & Sag, 1997), as well as marking of the downstairs subject (Koenig, 1998) that the downstairs verb assumes a more active role than what is suggested by an argument composition approach and, conversely, we shall show that argument composition leads to problems with coordination and with en-cliticisation. The analysis we are going to propose combines an inversion analysis of the downstairs subject as a downstairs complement, accounting for scrambling and case marking, with an analysis of clitic climbing in terms of inflectional periphrasis (Aguila-Multner & Crysmann 2020).
Clitic Climbing Revisited
(2003)
Presently, there is overall consent among researchers on Romance in HPSG (Miller and Sag, 1997, Abeillé et al., 1998, Monachesi, 1996, 1999) that bounded clitic climbing (CC) is best understood in terms of argument composition. Despite the fact that all current analyses of CC are based on the same core idea, individual analyses of this phenomenon differ.
In this paper, I shall propose a unified approach that will be applicable to CC in both French and Italian. The approach will be cast entirely in terms of valence lists, argument structure and slash, such that construction- or language-specific book-keeping devices can be eliminated. As a side-effect, this approach provides a more strengthened view of lexical integrity, in that morphological information, i.e. an argument's mode of realisation, will not be directly accessible for subcategorisation.
Conventional wisdom holds that productive morphology is regular morphology. Drawing evidence from French, we argue that the description of many lexeme formation processes is simplified if we hold that a productive rule may give rise to inflectionally irregular lexemes. We argue that the notion of a stem space allows for a straightforward description of this phenomenon: each lexeme comes equipped with a vector of possibly distinct stems, which serve as bases for inflectional form construction. The stem space is structured by default relations which encode the regular pattern of inflection; (partial) irregularities occur when a lexeme specifies a stem space violating the default relations. Derived irregularity is then the effect of a productive lexeme formation rule which specifies an irregular stem space for its output.
In this paper, we study Old French declension, a system which exhibits the theoretically challenging phenomenon of morphological reversal (Baerman, 2007). Furthermore, the declension system of Old French only recognises a single exponent -s, which marks different case/number combinations in different paradigms, contrasting with the unmarked form. We show that reversal is only one of several syncretism patterns found in the language and propose that Old French declension is best understood in terms of two systematic syncretisms: a natural split between singular and plural for feminines, and a Paninian split for masculines that systematically marks the objective plural. Reversal, and other seemingly morphomic splits arise as a result of idiosyncrasy in the NOM.SG cell, comprising inflection class-specific s-marking, as well as stem alternation and overabundance. We provide a formal analysis in terms of Information-based Morphology (Crysmann & Bonami, 2016) that effortlessly captures the systematic splits, as well as the variation in the nominative singular. We suggest that the high degree of idiosyncrasy in this cell paired with the reduced frequency of overt nominative NPs when compared to objective NPs may serve to explain why the system was actually quite short-lived.
Désinvolture
(2018)
Das Wort 'Désinvolture' hat Ernst Jünger erstmals mit gedanklicher und historischer Substanz gefüllt: Er hat aus dem in Deutschland kaum bekannten Fremdwort einen Begriff mit sozialanthropologischer Ausrichtung gemacht, um eine Haltung zu kennzeichnen, für die er offenbar kein angemessenes deutsches Wort finden konnte. Sonst hielt er sich mit der Verwendung von Fremdwörtern sehr zurück. Obwohl er die französische Variante wählte, hat das Wort eine Entsprechung im Italienischen, die er in einer seiner Explikationen erwähnt ('Desinvoltura'), und eine im Spanischen, die er in einer weiteren durch ein Bacon-Zitat mitteilt ('Desenvoltura'). Der Schwerpunkt liegt also in der Romania, in der die Haltung, auf die Jünger hinauswill, offensichtlich stärker ausgeprägt war als in anderen Sprachräumen.
This paper presents a descriptive overview of liaison, giving an idea of the scope of the phenomenon and possible approaches to its analysis. As for the contextual conditions on liaison, in many cases, the traditional notions of obligatory and prohibited liaison do not reflect speakers' actual behavior. It turns out that general syntactic constraints cannot determine the systematic presence or absence of liaison at a given word boundary. At best, specific constraints can be formulated to target particular classes of constructions. To express such constraints, I propose a system of representation in the framework of HPSG. The use of EDGE features (introduced by Miller (1992) for a GPSG treatment of French) provides the necessary link between phrasal descriptions and the properties of phrase-peripheral elements.
Der Begriff Eurocomprehension steht für Europäische Interkomprehension in den drei großen Sprachengruppen Europas, der romanischen, slawischen und germanischen. Es geht der Eurocomprehension darum, unter EU-konformen sprachpolitischen Zielsetzungen Mehrsprachigkeit über den Einstieg in rezeptive Kompetenzen modularisiert zu erreichen. Dabei liefert die linguistische Interkomprehensionsforschung die interlingualen Transferbasen zur kognitiven Nutzung von Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen in Sprachgruppen, die eine Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik umsetzt. ...
Als eines der Hauptprobleme der Rezeption deutscher Kultur in Frankreich kann die Dichotomie von Dekontextualisierung vs. Hyperkontextualisierung bezeichnet werden, wobei man das Bild von den zwei Seiten derselben Münze benutzen könnte. Die damit verbundenen Interpretationsansätze bewirken einerseits, dass bei der Auseinandersetzung mit deutscher Literatur, Philosophie und Kunst der historische, politische und soziale Kontext oft vernachlässigt oder gar ausgeblendet wird. Bereits Heinrich Heine warnte seine französischen Zeitgenossen in seinem Buch 'De l'Allemagne' (1833) vor dieser Gefahr beim Umgang mit der deutschen Romantik. Andererseits kann man ebenso häufig beobachten, wie in Frankreich geistig-künstlerische Werke aus Deutschland auf ihre geschichtlichen Entstehungsbedingungen oder politischen Implikationen bzw. Belastungen heruntergebrochen werden. Dieses Phänomen kann natürlich verstärkt in Zeiten ideologischer und kriegerischer Auseinandersetzungen zwischen beiden Ländern beobachtet werden, vor allem während der Periode 1870–1945. Aber auch heute noch - ein halbes Jahrhundert nach dem deutschfranzösischen Freundschaftsvertrag - prägt die Epoche des Nationalsozialismus den Blick vieler Franzosen auf Deutschland und beeinflusst maßgeblich die Rezeption deutscher Literatur, Philosophie und Kunst.
Die hiermit aufgeworfene Frage ist die nach dem notwendigen bzw. angemessenen Grad von (politikgeschichtlicher) Kontextualisierung im französischen Verhältnis zur deutschen Kultur, wobei eine pauschale Beantwortung sich selbstredend als schwierig oder gar unmöglich erweist.
Plus de la moitié des Européens de l’U.E. parlent une langue romane comme langue maternelle. Parmi les autres Européens, l’apprentissage de langues romanes comme langue étrangère est très fréquent, il n’est dépassé que par l’anglais: Une «Romanophonie» pourrait s’appuyer donc sur une base large, tandis que ses valeurs intercompréhensives ne sont pas encore suffisamment mises à la disposition d’un publique européen. Au contraire: les nations créent de plus en plus des barrières entre les langues romanes en institutionnalisant les différences et non pas ce qu’elles ont en commun. En Allemagne où l’on trouve encore la philologie romane (Romanische Philologie) comme unité d’études on peut observer en même temps une tendance vers une spécialisation en études unilingues (Einzelphilologien). Un tel séparatisme linguistique à l’intérieur d’une seule famille renonce aux avantages intercommunicatifs et intercompréhensifs offerts par les langues romanes. Le phénomène de l’intercompréhension est largement connu, pas seulement parmi les romanistes. C’est le résultat d’une tradition de l’écrit et d’un héritage culturel - une partie importante de l’unité intellectuelle du continent européen - qui rend les langues romanes si accessibles. ...
Kanada ist ein offiziell zweisprachiges Land, in dem der Dualismus von Englisch und Französisch Geschichte hat. Die Frankophonie in Kanada ist in den letzten 20 Jahren in Bewegung geraten: Wirtschaftswandel und Migration aus französischsprachigen Ländern haben ihre soziale Struktur deutlich verändert. Damit einher geht auch ein Wandel in der Politik: Die Basis-Alphabetisierung für frankophone Erwachsene hat Priorität, um damit die Voraussetzung für bessere ökonomische Chancen zu schaffen. Dagegen rücken kulturelle Interessen, wie sie noch in den 1980er Jahren eine wesentliche Rolle für die "Selbstidentifikation" der Frankophonen spielten, in den Hintergrund.