Lingvisticæ Investigationes - Volume 6, Issue 1, 1982

Gaston Gross: a case of reverse constructions: donner et recevoir.Besides the common use of the verbs donner (to give) and recevoir (to receive) in their concrete meaning, these two verbs may take nominal predicates such as in the sentencesBob gave his agreement to Jo's leavingJo received Bob's agreement for leavingThere, complex relations link the subjects and objects of both verbs. The author classifies various types of analogous constructions according to the verbal nouns found in direct object positions. Three main types are defined and, in one case, a relation (a Harrisian type of transformation) is shown to hold between donner and recevoir.

Kjell-Åke Gunnarson: Three Constructions with a Dependency between Subject and PP.This study bears on relations between subject noun phrases and prepositional phrases found in various positions. The author discusses the action of a rule that extraposes noun complements of the subject head. Thus prepositional phrases are moved to positions that superficially appear as complement position. Complex conditions on the application of the rule lead to the distinction of three types of constructions that depend both on the main verb and on the content of the noun phrases.

Hong Chai-Song: Remarks on Verbs of Movement in Korean: the Construction O v-le.Complex constructions in Korean are built by means of verbal conjunctional suffixes. The suffix Ie is shown to have semantic selection on the subordinate verb which must be a verb of movement. The syntactic properties induced by this conjunctional suffix are studied and contrasted with other intuitively related constructions. This study leads to disambiguation of the construction and allows a systematic study with respect to the lexicon: close to 300 verbs have been found to enter the construction. One finds both proper Korean verbs and Sino-Korean ones. All convey the meaning of movement of the subject. The syntactic and semantic status of the constructions has been found to be strikingly similar to the situation found in certain Romance languages.

Lidija lordanskaja: The Linear Ordering of Pronominal Non Subject Clitics in Modern French.The author reviews the classical problem of the placement of clitics in French with respect to the order of the source complements. The new element brought into the study is the use of Melcuk's theoretical framework. Dual deep structures that combine the morphology and the prosody of sentences constitute a base set on which mapping on superficial structures is defined. Superficial structures are dependency trees. A system of formal rules is defined and shown to account for the most complex situations described in the literature.

Mitsou Ronat: A solution for an apparent counter-example to the theory of binding.A criticism of the objection raised by A. Zribi-Hertz to the Chomsky's theory of binding.

Anne Zribi-Hertz: A reply to Mitsou Ronat.

Pierre Swiggers: Frege on reference in quotation.A discussion about the correct interpretation of an "enigmatic" statement made by Frege.

Catherine V. Chvany: Explain and explain.A remark on the nature of Linguistic explanation.

Annibale Elia: Syntax of popular italian: the type parla che.A discussion of a "substandard" construction. Implications for the analysis of structural complements.

Julia Herschensohn: Pro and the object rising.About binding constraints that are in contradiction with the theory of government.

Robert Vivès: A possible analysis of certain prepositional complements. Superficial prepositional complements (mainly of adjectives) are shown to originate in a complex noun phrase.