Title: | L’insoutenable légèreté de la préposition en |
Authors: | Dany Amiot, Walter De Mulder |
Publication: | Studii de lingvistică, 1, p. 9-27 Hommages à Maria Ţenchea |
p-ISSN: | 2248-2547 |
Publisher: | Facultatea de Litere din Oradea |
Place: | Oradea |
Year: | 2011 |
Abstract: | Although the French preposition en has a very flexible meaning, it is possible to distinguish two broad classes of senses: (i) the “localizing” ones, where en expresses, roughly, ‘interiority’ in several domains of experience, and (ii) the “qualifying” ones, where the use of en implies a qualification of the first element of the relation expressed by the preposition. The localizing senses were commonly used in old French, but the relation between the two classes of senses mentioned above has shifted and the qualifying sense is by far the most frequent one in contemporary French. We argue, however, (i) that this “qualifying” sense gets different interpretations according to the contexts in which the preposition occurs, and (ii) that in some of its uses the preposition is part of larger constructions, so that its interpretation in these constructions can no longer be related to some kind of basic meaning. |
Key words: | preposition, semantics, diachronic evolution |
Language: | French |
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Citations to this publication: 1
1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 54, 2011). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2011 | LR, LXI (4), 437-576 | 2012 | pdf html |
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