An Unbridgeable Gap? The Treatment of Definiteness Restrictions in French and Chinese Presentational Constructions
Availing ourselves of a parallel corpus – composed of two written and spoken subcorpora –, in this study we adopt a contrastive perspective to explore the (lack of) correspondence between French il y a-constructions with a definite pivot and Chinese yǒu-constructions. It is shown that most il y a-co...
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Presses universitaires de Caen
2022-12-01
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/discours/12249 |
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