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La negation et l'orientation de la demande de confirmation (Negation and the Orientation of the Request for a Positive Response).
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Borillo, Andre – Langue Francaise, 1979
Examines the structure of negation in questions in French, in particular the interrogative form containing a negative but expecting a positive response. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Negative Forms (Language), Sentence Structure
Le systeme de la negation en francais et l'opacite du sujet (The Structure of Negation in French and Subject Opacity).
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Milner, Jean-Claude – Langue Francaise, 1979
Examines the relationship of "ne" and its accompanying particles ("pas,""plus,""jamais,""personne," etc.) in the French negation system, with special reference to subject opacity. (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, French, Grammar, Negative Forms (Language)
Le Juge de paix et le gardien de la paix, ou le probleme de la determination dans le complement du nom ("Le juge de paix et le gardien de la paix," or the Problem of Determination in the Object of a Noun Phrase).
Coulon, R. – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1979
Presents an analysis of noun phrases in which the definite article is used and omitted. Several studies are reviewed and two types of occurrences are distinguished: direct (agent, instrument, object) and oblique (locative, dative). The relationships, perceptible in the deep structure, are blurred in the transformations leading to surface…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Determiners (Languages), French, Function Words
Des sous-univers du discours, qui degages a la fois du sens et de la forme. Applications en syntaxe. (Underworlds of Discourse That Would Be Distinct from Both Meaning and Form).
Lecerf, Yves – Langages, 1979
It is proposed that the notion of "address" is neither meaning nor form but that it designates the form which designates meaning. It is therefore in a position underlying both form and meaning. (AMH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), French, Language Research
Unhappiness about Not Unhappy People.
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Aitchison, Jean; Bailey, Guy – Journal of Linguistics, 1979
Examines the idea of a mismatch between grammaticality and acceptability. Evidence is used to refute the claim that ungrammatical but acceptable sentences are theoretically plausible in the case of the sentence, "A not unhappy person entered the room." (AMH)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Deep Structure, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability