Description

• Title:
  Pluralia Tantum and Support Verbs
• Creator:
  Anscombre, Jean-Claude
• Description:
  It is a long-acknowledged fact that in a wide number of Indo-European languages, some noun phrases occur solely in the plural. As for the French language — the only one concerned in this study — examples as les semailles, les pourparlers, les environs, les pantalons, etc., are very common ones. A subclass of these plural invariable nouns (Pluralia tantum), shows specific properties, e.g., the noun phrase does not behave like a collective noun; it differs in meaning from the version in singular, and the version in plural is always diachronically posterior to the one in singular. The main point is that these plural nouns seem to involve a limited class of verbs in a privileged way. The main purpose of this study is then to question the status of support verb of these verbs, as well as their role in a possible process of idiomatization.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2022 Neophilologica
• Date:
  2022.12.20
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  French
• Source:
  Neophilologica; Vol. 34 (2022): Support Verbs and other studies; 1-18;
  Neophilologica; Vol. 34 (2022): Verbes supports et autres études; 1-18;
  Neophilologica; Tom 34 (2022): Verbes supports et autres études / Support Verbs and other studies; 1-18;
  2353-088X;
  0208-5550
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press
• Relation: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/NEO/article/view/13841/11372
• Subject:
  Pluralia tantum;
  idiomatization;
  support verbs;
  collective nouns
• Identifier: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/NEO/article/view/13841
• Data provider:
  Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text