French adverbial cleft sentences

@article{DeCesare2018FrenchAC,
  title={French adverbial cleft sentences},
  author={Anna-Maria De Cesare},
  journal={Non-prototypical clefts},
  year={2018}
}
The goal of this contribution is to deepen our knowledge of French cleft sentences through the study of a special category of clefts called adverbial clefts. The issues that we will address concern their form, discourse frequency and boundaries with resembling structures. In order to shed light on these issues, we start by defining the concept of adverbial from a morphosyntactic and functional point of view. We then present a corpus-based description of the categories of adverbials that… 
View via Publisher
1 Citations

One Citation

To be or not to be focus adverbials?

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 29 REFERENCES
A framework for the analysis of cleft constructions
This paper proposes a framework for the analysis of cleft constructions across languages. It takes as its point of departure Jespersen's second (1937), non-derivational, analysis of it-cleft…
On explaining the rise of c'est -clefts in French
In Contemporary French, c’est -clefts are claimed to occur with significantly higher frequency than their counterparts in other Romance languages and in older stages of French. Starting out from the…
Les adverbes de domaine et l’expression de la modalité assertive
The aim of this article is to propose a semantic-pragmatic analysis of a subgroup of French adverbs called viewpoints subjuncts. The viewpoints subjuncts function as an adverbial group which ofers a…
Form and frequency of Italian Cleft constructions in a corpus of electronic news : a comparative perspective with French, Spanish, German and English
The aim of this paper is to assess the form and frequency of Cleft constructions (which traditionally subsume at least the classes of Cleft sentences, Pseudocleft sentences and Reverse pseudo-cleft…
On the status of exhaustiveness in cleft sentences: An empirical and cross-linguistic study of English also-/only-clefts and Italian anche-/solo-clefts
Abstract The goal of the paper is to shed new light on the semantics and pragmatics of cleft sentences by discussing the exhaustive interpretation typically associated with these complex syntactic…
A classification of French adverbs based on distributional, syntactic and prosodic criteria
This study explores formal criteria for the classification of adverbs in French. Distributional analysis tests whether adverbs appear in particular morpho-syntactic contexts, including syntactic…
Issues in adverbial syntax
Verbs and Times
  • Z. Vendler
  • Linguistics
    The Language of Time - A Reader
  • 2005
TLDR
The time schemata presupposed by various verbs will appear as important constituents of the concepts that prompt us to use those terms the way the authors consistently do and may be used as models of comparison in exploring and clarifying the behavior of any verb whatever.
Defining Focusing Modifiers in a cross-linguistic perspective
The goal of this chapter is to reconnect with the research agenda of the “classic” studies on the so-called Focusing Modifiers (such as E. also, only, even ) by tackling questions related to the…
The French c'est-cleft : function and frequency
This article will examine the French c'est-cleft, a marked word order construction that can be considered as the formal equivalent of the English it-cleft. The French c'est-cleft is considerably more…
...
...