Dislocation clitique de l’objet à gauche en français écrit

This paper deals with the acceptability of syntactic constructions in the light of a distinction between written and spoken French. We present this distinction as one factor within a multifactorial approach. Relevant factors include pragmatic, stylistic, and syntactic constraints which will influenc...

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Main Authors: Étienne Riou, Barbara Hemforth
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Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Caen 2015-09-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/discours/9037
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description This paper deals with the acceptability of syntactic constructions in the light of a distinction between written and spoken French. We present this distinction as one factor within a multifactorial approach. Relevant factors include pragmatic, stylistic, and syntactic constraints which will influence the acceptability of an utterance. We therefore argue that, by modifying the information structure, it is possible to make a construction that is strongly associated with spoken French (clitic left dislocation of the object) acceptable in a written French context. To test this hypothesis, we present a series of experiments testing the construction’s acceptability under various informational constraints. We propose a model with similar constraints for both spoken and written French including modality as one of the predictors.
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spellingShingle Étienne Riou
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Dislocation clitique de l’objet à gauche en français écrit
Discours
information structure
clitic left dislocation
acceptability judgment
written French
experimental linguistics
title Dislocation clitique de l’objet à gauche en français écrit
title_full Dislocation clitique de l’objet à gauche en français écrit
title_fullStr Dislocation clitique de l’objet à gauche en français écrit
title_full_unstemmed Dislocation clitique de l’objet à gauche en français écrit
title_short Dislocation clitique de l’objet à gauche en français écrit
title_sort dislocation clitique de l objet a gauche en francais ecrit
topic information structure
clitic left dislocation
acceptability judgment
written French
experimental linguistics
url https://journals.openedition.org/discours/9037
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