Published: 2023-12-29

French neutral demonstrative pronouns before relative-type subordinate clauses

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Abstract

This work deals with the construction of relatives and cleft clauses that follow a demonstrative pronoun in French. It examines their mode of acquisition of meaning and reference, either by referential increase obtained by predicative interactions and lexical meaning, or by the process of focusing on a referent in the situation or context. We show that the original pronoun ce is no longer demonstrative in all these structures, and how the various demonstratives are used in actual French in those contexts.

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Muller, C. (2023). French neutral demonstrative pronouns before relative-type subordinate clauses. Neophilologica, 35, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.31261/NEO.2023.35.15

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Vol. 35 (2023)
Published: 2023-12-31


ISSN: 0208-5550
eISSN: 2353-088X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/NEO

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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