Temperaments, tempers, and temporality

Cappelle, Bert; Mostrov, Vassil; Tayalati, Fayssal

Document type :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

DOI :

10.1075/lic.19006.cap

Title :

Temperaments, tempers, and temporality

Author(s) :

Cappelle, Bert [Auteur]

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Mostrov, Vassil [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Tayalati, Fayssal [Auteur]

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

Journal title :

Languages in Contrast

Pages :

82-111

Publisher :

John Benjamins Publishing

Publication date :

2021-01-26

ISSN :

1387-6759

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives/Linguistique

English abstract : [en]

Abstract This study focuses on French and English abstract nouns denoting properties that can be ascribed to humans, such as beauty, carefulness and anger . Previous research showed that some but not all of these nouns are ...
Show more >Abstract This study focuses on French and English abstract nouns denoting properties that can be ascribed to humans, such as beauty, carefulness and anger . Previous research showed that some but not all of these nouns are licensed in both locative existentials (e.g., There’s an intense anger in Isabella ) and possessive existentials (e.g., Isabella has an intense anger ). What remains unclear is how these and other patterns correlate among themselves depending on how easily they host such nouns. We here use speaker ratings of these nouns in different constructional environments. A principal component analysis suggests that the main dimension underlying native speakers’ ratings of these abstract nouns in six different patterns is temporal limitability. This gradable distinction, strongly correlated with the locative existential, holds for both the French and English data and outweighs any French-English contrastive differences in how acceptable human property nouns are considered to be in the patterns studied.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

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