The emergence of Noun + Noun constructions with a regressive order in contemporary French?

Document type :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

DOI :

10.1017/S095926951200018X

Title :

The emergence of Noun + Noun constructions with a regressive order in contemporary French?

Author(s) :

Loock, Rudy [Auteur]

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

Journal title :

Journal of French Language Studies

Pages :

1-21

Publisher :

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Publication date :

2012-05-09

ISSN :

0959-2695

English keyword(s) :

Noun+Noun constructions
premodification
French
grammaticalization
morphology
variation

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

English abstract : [en]

This paper investigates the emergence of atypical noun+noun structures exhibiting regressive order (head-final or NN) in contemporary French such as la grève attitude ('the strike attitude') or la Marcelle solidarité ('the ...
Show more >This paper investigates the emergence of atypical noun+noun structures exhibiting regressive order (head-final or NN) in contemporary French such as la grève attitude ('the strike attitude') or la Marcelle solidarité ('the Marcelle solidarity'). Using attested examples drawn from contemporary media, the aim of the paper is to provide a detailed description and history of these data, as well as to study its productivity through the emergence of patterns such as la N attitude or la N Academy/Académie. Using traditional tests, the paper also investigates the morphological versus syntactic nature of the construction and concludes in favour of the former.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

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