Verbal agreement with partitive noun phrases

Leclercq, Benoît; Depraetere, Ilse

Type de document :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

DOI :

10.1111/stul.12059

Titre :

Verbal agreement with partitive noun phrases

Auteur(s) :

Leclercq, Benoît [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Depraetere, Ilse [Auteur]

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Titre de la revue :

Studia Linguistica

Pagination :

340-361

Éditeur :

Wiley-Blackwell

Date de publication :

2018

ISSN :

0039-3193

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

Résumé en anglais : [en]

This paper provides empirical evidence in favour of Marti Girbau’s (2003, 2010) quantifier phrase analysis (QP of N) of the partitive construction, which is based on the analysis of verbal agreement in a large data set ...
Lire la suite >This paper provides empirical evidence in favour of Marti Girbau’s (2003, 2010) quantifier phrase analysis (QP of N) of the partitive construction, which is based on the analysis of verbal agreement in a large data set from the BNC (British National Corpus) and COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English). The competing binominal N of NP analysis, advocated by some, predicts that there is number agreement with the first nominal element. In order to account for verbal agreement along these lines, two further principles, that of proximal agreement and possibly that of notional agreement, are needed. The agreement patterns with the partitive construction as observed in the corpus can be explained in a more elegant way when the NP is analysed in terms of a quantifier phrase followed by a nominal head (QP of N): verb number is predicted in 95.74% of the cases (compared to 54.24% when the binominal analysis is adopted), agreement in the remaining 4.26% exceptional cases falling out of further semantic and lexical considerations.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

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