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

Type de document :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1017/S095926951200018X

Titre :

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

Auteur(s) :

Loock, Rudy [Auteur]

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

Titre de la revue :

Journal of French Language Studies

Pagination :

1-21

Éditeur :

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date de publication :

2012-05-09

ISSN :

0959-2695

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Noun+Noun constructions
premodification
French
grammaticalization
morphology
variation

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

Résumé en anglais : [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 ...
Lire la suite >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.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

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