Title :

Adjectifs d’évaluation de comportement

Author(s) :

Paykin-Arroues, Katia [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Van De Velde, Danièle [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Tayalati, Fayssal [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Journal title :

Lingvisticae investigationes : International Journal of Linguistics and Language

Pages :

20-55

Publisher :

Philadelphia ; Amsterdam : John Benjamins [1977-....]

Publication date :

2013

ISSN :

0378-4169

English keyword(s) :

Behavior evaluation adjective
individual level predicate
passive
cognate object
agentivity
argument structure

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

English abstract : [en]

The article proposes a unified analysis of Behavior Evaluation Adjectives (BEA), like gentil ‘kind’ or prudent ‘wise’, whether the quality expressed is attributed to a human subject (Tu es vraiment gentil de nous aider ...
Show more >The article proposes a unified analysis of Behavior Evaluation Adjectives (BEA), like gentil ‘kind’ or prudent ‘wise’, whether the quality expressed is attributed to a human subject (Tu es vraiment gentil de nous aider ‘You are really kind to help us’) or to his/her behavior (Nous aider est vraiment gentil de ta part ‘To help us is really kind of you’). We argue that these two structures should be viewed as diathetic variants of one another, the structure with the clausal subject being the passive equivalent of the active construction with a human subject. BEAs function as part of an active complex predicate être ‘be’+A, which takes an external “agent” argument expressed by an NP+human and a direct internal argument, infinitive clause. Thus, BEAs function in all their usages as secondary predicates of “Individual level” type, providing the evaluation of a human subject as an agent.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL