Matériels sur tout + gérondif
The goal of this article is to provide new empirical data on “tout + gerund” in present day French by means of quantitative (two corpora of spoken French, one corpus taken from the French press) and qualitative analyses (two metalinguistic tests based on paraphrase and acceptability). From a statist...
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| description | The goal of this article is to provide new empirical data on “tout + gerund” in present day French by means of quantitative (two corpora of spoken French, one corpus taken from the French press) and qualitative analyses (two metalinguistic tests based on paraphrase and acceptability). From a statistical point of view, it seems that tout + gerund is not very frequent, it is often placed after the principal verb and it expresses atelic events. From a qualitative point of view, the syntactic and semantic possibilities of tout + gerund seem to be wider than those suggested by previous introspective analyses, and speakers seem to follow a certain logic on choosing such values. Beyond opposition and synchrony, our data show that tout + gerund can express temporal location, inclusion and cause. Moreover, it tolerates an implicit subject that may be different from the subject of the main verb. Finally, since it is probably a “phrasal converb” (as it correlates two more or less independent clauses) it cannot indicate manner. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e60299f304c44a8481ceb5649cb294102025-01-30T09:52:50ZengPresses universitaires de CaenDiscours1963-17232014-12-011510.4000/discours.8962Matériels sur tout + gérondifOreste FloquetThe goal of this article is to provide new empirical data on “tout + gerund” in present day French by means of quantitative (two corpora of spoken French, one corpus taken from the French press) and qualitative analyses (two metalinguistic tests based on paraphrase and acceptability). From a statistical point of view, it seems that tout + gerund is not very frequent, it is often placed after the principal verb and it expresses atelic events. From a qualitative point of view, the syntactic and semantic possibilities of tout + gerund seem to be wider than those suggested by previous introspective analyses, and speakers seem to follow a certain logic on choosing such values. Beyond opposition and synchrony, our data show that tout + gerund can express temporal location, inclusion and cause. Moreover, it tolerates an implicit subject that may be different from the subject of the main verb. Finally, since it is probably a “phrasal converb” (as it correlates two more or less independent clauses) it cannot indicate manner.https://journals.openedition.org/discours/8962corpus linguisticsgerundquantitative approachmetalinguistic awarenesssyntax and semantics |
| spellingShingle | Oreste Floquet Matériels sur tout + gérondif Discours corpus linguistics gerund quantitative approach metalinguistic awareness syntax and semantics |
| title | Matériels sur tout + gérondif |
| title_full | Matériels sur tout + gérondif |
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| title_short | Matériels sur tout + gérondif |
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| topic | corpus linguistics gerund quantitative approach metalinguistic awareness syntax and semantics |
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