Date: 04-Jun-2007 From: François Mouret < dot mouret at linguist dot jussieu dot fr">francois dot mouret at linguist dot jussieu dot fr> Subject: Grammaire des constructions coordonnées : coordinations simples et coordinations à redoublement en français contemporain
Institution: University of Paris 7, Denis Diderot
Program: Formal Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2007
Author: François Mouret
Dissertation Title: Grammaire des constructions coordonnées : coordinations simples et coordinations à redoublement en français contemporain.
In this dissertation, we study the syntactic and semantic properties of simplex coordinations (Paul ira á Londres et á Venise) vs. doubled coordinations (Paul ira et á Londres et á Venise) and their impact on a general theory of coordination. The comprehensive description of both structures provides empirical evidence for an exocentric analysis of coordination as a specific hierarchy of constructions, capturing both the general properties of coordinate structures, which are distinct from those headed constructions, and the fine-grained properties of simplex vs doubled coordinations in the grammar of French. The systematic comparison of both structures also provides arguments against analyses appealing to ellipsis to account for non-constituent coordinations (Paul offrira (et) un disque á Marie et un livre á Jean) and coordinations of unlike categories (Marie adore (et) les réceptions et qu'on lui apporte des fleurs). Our main results are compatible with different theoretical frameworks as long as one recognizes the central role of constructions in the grammar. We provide an HPSG formalization that explicitly encodes our syntactic analyses and assures their overall consistency.
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