E-Book, Englisch, Band VI:3, 131 Seiten
Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond
Barnes The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French
Erscheinungsjahr 1985
ISBN: 978-90-272-7961-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, Band VI:3, 131 Seiten
Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond
ISBN: 978-90-272-7961-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c’est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation. The author’s observations support a view of LD in French as a particular type of paratactic structure which should be seen primarily as a feature of unplanned discourse. The analysis partly builds on views expressed by Knud Lambrecht in an earlier contribution tot this series.