The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French
GBP
- Author(s): Betsy K. Barnes
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date January 1985
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027279613
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/pb.vi.3
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.
Related Topics:
Pragmatics
;
Romance linguistics
;
Syntax
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