The categories of grammar : French lui and le /

This book offers an analysis of the French clitic object pronouns lui and le in the radically functional Columbia school framework, contrasting this framework with sentence-based treatments of case selection. It suggests that features of the sentence such as subject and object relations, normally ta...

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Main Author: Huffman, Alan, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©1997.
Series:Studies in language companion series ; v. 30.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Problem of lui and le; 2. The System of Degree of Control; 3. Semantic Substance: Exploitations of Degree of Control; 4. Linguistic Value: Lui versus Le; 5. Networks of Oppositions; 6. The Theory of the Sentence and the Traditional Canon; 7. A New Perspective on the Notions ""Pronominalization"" and ""Cliticity""; 8. The Categories of Grammar; Notes; Bibliography; Index