Stabilité et qualification dans les WH dits de parcours
WH markers in English being originally interrogative are most often described in TOE as referring to scanning, considering that this is a primary operation in all these markers. We will show that a general analysis of this fundamentally heterogeneous class of markers cannot conclude to this type of...
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| description | WH markers in English being originally interrogative are most often described in TOE as referring to scanning, considering that this is a primary operation in all these markers. We will show that a general analysis of this fundamentally heterogeneous class of markers cannot conclude to this type of description. Besides the differences existing in their grammatical and syntactic functions, as they may be observed in the various markers in contemporary English (direct or indirect interrogative and relative pronouns or adverbs with or without an antecedent), it can be noticed that the qualitative and quantitative components Qlt and Qnt, do not play the same part in the operations of each marker. The only common and fundamental operations to be found are the mark of an empty or emptied place in the lexis along with that of a relation locating it relative to another predication. When the former marks the absence of stability of the differential properties involved, the latter provides the notional properties. It is therefore unnecessary to conceive a notional domain whose occurrences may be scanned, in order to account for simple interrogative or relative clauses, unless other specific operations of determination (pinpointing) or focalisation (cleft-structures) for instance, do reveal the preconstruction of such domains. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-74000e36fc02449d9f1045a17f3e3acf2025-08-20T01:54:46ZengCercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICOCorela1638-573X2006-06-01410.4000/corela.1387Stabilité et qualification dans les WH dits de parcoursRégis MauroyWH markers in English being originally interrogative are most often described in TOE as referring to scanning, considering that this is a primary operation in all these markers. We will show that a general analysis of this fundamentally heterogeneous class of markers cannot conclude to this type of description. Besides the differences existing in their grammatical and syntactic functions, as they may be observed in the various markers in contemporary English (direct or indirect interrogative and relative pronouns or adverbs with or without an antecedent), it can be noticed that the qualitative and quantitative components Qlt and Qnt, do not play the same part in the operations of each marker. The only common and fundamental operations to be found are the mark of an empty or emptied place in the lexis along with that of a relation locating it relative to another predication. When the former marks the absence of stability of the differential properties involved, the latter provides the notional properties. It is therefore unnecessary to conceive a notional domain whose occurrences may be scanned, in order to account for simple interrogative or relative clauses, unless other specific operations of determination (pinpointing) or focalisation (cleft-structures) for instance, do reveal the preconstruction of such domains.https://journals.openedition.org/corela/1387scanningquantificationqualificationstabilitydeformabilitywh-questions |
| spellingShingle | Régis Mauroy Stabilité et qualification dans les WH dits de parcours Corela scanning quantification qualification stability deformability wh-questions |
| title | Stabilité et qualification dans les WH dits de parcours |
| title_full | Stabilité et qualification dans les WH dits de parcours |
| title_fullStr | Stabilité et qualification dans les WH dits de parcours |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stabilité et qualification dans les WH dits de parcours |
| title_short | Stabilité et qualification dans les WH dits de parcours |
| title_sort | stabilite et qualification dans les wh dits de parcours |
| topic | scanning quantification qualification stability deformability wh-questions |
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