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O. PRELIMINARY REMARKS Initial drafts of the papers in this collection were presented in a con ference entitled 'Views on Phrase Structure', held at the University of Florida, Gainesville, in March, 1989. Eleven of the twenty-three partici pants in the conference were able to contribute to this volume. The purpose of the conference was to explore theories of phrase structure in their relation to other subsystems of grammar and/or systems of nonlinguistic knowledge. Some of the grammatical subsystems which the authors consider are theta-theory, movement, Case, and binding; a number of papers address how the conceptual system and/or aspects of language use may interact. Unifying the various ap...
This monograph gives a unified account of the syntactic distribution of subjunctive mood across languages, including Romance, Balkan (South Slavic and Modern Greek), and Hungarian, among others. Starting from a close scrutiny of the environments in which subjunctive mood occurs and of its semantic contribution, we present a feature-based approach which reveals the common properties of the class of verbs which embed subjunctive, and which takes into account the variation in subjunctive-related complementizers. Two main proposals can be highlighted: (i) the lexical semantics of the main clause predicate plays a crucial role in mood selection. More specifically subjunctive mood is regulated by ...
La discipline scolaire Français a comme spécificité à la fois de faire pratiquer la langue en situations de lecture et de production orale et écrite et de la prendre comme objet d'observation et d’étude dans ses diverses dimensions : grammaire, orthographe, lexique, morphologie verbale, etc. Depuis une cinquantaine d’années, les directives générales des différents pays de la francophonie affirment que, outre la construction d’une représentation de la langue comme système, l’enseignement de la langue est (ou devrait être) au service de la lecture et de l’écriture. Mais comment se réalise cette double finalité ? Comment penser et concrétiser les articulations que cel...
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