Paul se rase en chantant, dit-il en bafouillant: Quels types de manière pour le gérondif en français?
Paul se rase en chantant, dit-il en bafouillant: What Types of Manner for the Gérondif in French?
Author(s): Olga NádvorníkováSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: French; gerund; manner; typology; semantics
Summary/Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of one of the meanings of the French gérondif: the manner. On the basis of large data provided by monolingual as well as parallel corpora (FRANTEXT and InterCorp), the author verifies and completes thoughts on this subject by Halmøy (1982, 2003) and Kleiber (2011). The author claims that the manner meaning is, in the case of the gérondif, derived from the basic meaning (accompanying circumstance) by two different procedures: on the one hand, a lexical procedure, specifying the inherent lexical aspect of the main predicate, and on the other hand, a pragmatic procedure, based on the contextual hypotheses concerning the emotional state of the agent.
Journal: Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 31-44
- Page Count: 14
- Language: French