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Papers by Dany Amiot
Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation
The paper focuses on the relationships between so-called diminutive/augmentative morphology and a... more The paper focuses on the relationships between so-called diminutive/augmentative morphology and approximation. As this topic is very broad, only the denominal nouns are studied in this article. Our study, based on data from French and Serbian, has a twofold aim: to answer the question asked in the title of this article and, the answer being negative, try to understand why only diminutive suffixes, and not augmentative ones, can express approximation. This should also allow us to understand the specificity of diminutive approximation. Firstly, we show that even though both types of evaluatives express non-conformity with respect to a norm, in the case of diminution the norm is not reached, whereas augmentation entails that the norm is not only reached but is exceeded. This suggests that approximation is fundamentally associated with a certain degree of deficiency, which is consistent with the literature on this topic. Secondly, we demonstrate that the main peculiarity of diminutive a...
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Nov 28, 2022
Dans cette communication, nous presenterons les resultats d’une nouvelle recherche sur le process... more Dans cette communication, nous presenterons les resultats d’une nouvelle recherche sur le processus d’ « affixisation ». Ce processus implique que certains lexemes peuvent se grammaticaliser en affixes (prefixes ou suffixes). L’etude portera plus particulierement sur la grammaticalisation de noms en affixes, en francais et en neerlandais. Apres une presentation de la theorie de l’affixisation et de l’interet de l’approche constructionnelle pour ce domaine de recherche, nous analyserons 5 cas specifiques : les constructions neerlandaises N-boer (p.ex. groenteboer ‘marchand de legumes’, visboer ‘marchand de poisson’, krantenboer ‘marchand de journaux ’), stok-A (stokstijf ‘raide comme un piquet’, stokoud ‘tres vieux’, stokdoof ‘sourd comme un pot’) et sleutel-N (p.ex. sleutelwoord ‘mot-cle’, sleutelbegrip ‘notion-cle’, sleutelfunctie ‘fonction-cle’) et les constructions francaises N-cle (p.ex. mot-cle, notion-cle, fonction-cle) et bebe-N (p.ex. bebe elephant, bebe maison, bebe voiture).
Dutch and French share a construction in which an element X occurs in a reduplicative coordinatio... more Dutch and French share a construction in which an element X occurs in a reduplicative coordination pattern: [X maar dan ook X] (lit. 'X but then also X') in Dutch and [X mais alors X] (lit. 'X but then X') in French (for Dutch, see Hoeksema (2001) and Cappelle (2012)). In both languages, this pattern can be used to put emphasis on X: (1) wij hebben alles maar dan ook alles gedaan om die mensen goed te begeleiden (... ) (CGN, shortened) 'lit. We have done everything but then also everything to guide these people appropriately' (2) je ne comprends pas les Wallons mais alors pas-du-tout (Valibel, shortened) 'lit. I do not understand the Walloons but then really not' Since these patterns combine a fixed sequence (maar dan ook / mais alors) with a variable element X (a (universal) quantifier, a degree adverb, an adjective, etc.) and since their emphatic meaning is not (entirely) predictable from their components, they seem to act like constructional idioms...
L’antériorité temporelle dans la préfixation en français
Bern : Peter Lang eBooks, Apr 22, 2011
... There are no files associated with this item. Recommended Citation. Amiot, Dany; Mulder, de, ... more ... There are no files associated with this item. Recommended Citation. Amiot, Dany; Mulder, de, Walter; Moline, Estelle; Stosic, Dejan - Ars Grammatica : hommages à Nelly Flaux - http://hdl.handle.net/10067/1013810151162165141 This item appears in the following Collection( ...
The Construction of Words, 2018
This chapter deals with adjectives used as nouns in French. Such uses of adjectives are cross-lin... more This chapter deals with adjectives used as nouns in French. Such uses of adjectives are cross-linguistically attested, and in recent years there have been numerous studies on this topic, often in a cross-linguistic perspective. Two kinds of interpretation are generally distinguished for these nouns: either the noun is abstract and refers to the property denoted by the adjective; or it is concrete and countable and refers to an individual, generally a human being. This study will focus on the latter, named de-adjectival human nouns. We will first present the main properties of de-adjectival human nouns in French, then we will give an account of the literature on de-adjectival nouns. Such nouns are generally analysed as being either syntactically derived or morphologically converted from adjectives. We will show, however, that both types of analysis suffer drawbacks. Finally, in line with the framework of Construction Grammar, we will provide an alternative analysis, in terms of syntactic coercion.
The notion of compounding generally has a more extensive scope in French morphology than in the l... more The notion of compounding generally has a more extensive scope in French morphology than in the literature on Germanic languages. In this talk, we focus on [N1 N2] units in French, but before doing so we present the different approaches to complex lexical units in French and show how true morphological formations (i.c. compounds) can be distinguished from multi-word phrases. We will outline three different approaches dealing with compounding in the French tradition: non-restrictive, scalar and restrictive (lexicalist). Although we believe morphological formations should be distinguished from syntactic formations, it is insightful to highlight their shared potential for expressing the same denominative functions. We will therefore add a fourth approach: we believe a constructionist, non-modular approach to the language system provides a more appropriate account. From this perspective, both compounds and phrasal structures with a naming function can act as conventionalized form-meaning pairings or ‘constructions’ and we should accept the existence of what Booij (2010: 190) calls ‘lexical phrasal constructions’, namely phrasal constructions that are stored in the (mental) lexicon. Furthermore, we show that [N1 N2] lexical units turn out to be the most problematic case in French since it is not easy to determine whether this formation belongs to syntax or morphology. A specific subtype, that of subordinative [N1 N2] units, will be examined in detail because the latter most severely challenge the morphology-syntax divide. Whereas Fradin (2009) considers these formations to be true compounds, we will show that this only holds for the classifying subtype, and not for the qualifying one. Finally, we will show how a constructionist account can be fruitfully applied to qualifying subordinative [N1 N2] formations. References Booij, Geert (2010). Construction Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fradin, Bernard (2009). IE, Romance: French. In: Lieber, Rochelle and Štekauer, Pavol (eds.): The Oxford handbook of compounding. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 417–435
Dutch laat staan and French encore moins: Constructional effects Marking the twenty-fifth anniver... more Dutch laat staan and French encore moins: Constructional effects Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of Fillmore, Kay and O’Connor’s (FKO, 1988) seminal paper on construction grammar, this paper explores various non-compositional effects of the commonest expressions corresponding to let alone in Dutch and French: laat staan (lit. ‘let stand’) and encore moins (lit. ‘still less’), respectively, the latter alternating with the expression encore plus (lit. ‘still more’) in affirmative contexts: (1) a. I can’t walk let alone run. → nl: laat staan; fr: encore moins b. I struggle to walk let alone run. → nl: laat staan; fr: encore plus Drawing extensively on data systematically gathered from corpora (CGN, DPC, GlossaNet, Linguee, Valibel), the web, and sound recordings, we show that these expressions exhibit language-specific idiosyncrasies and must be stored along with detailed knowledge about (i) the syntactic properties of their possible grammatical environments, (ii) the semantico-pr...
Si de tres nombreux travaux ont deja ete proposes sur les nominalisations d'une part, sur les... more Si de tres nombreux travaux ont deja ete proposes sur les nominalisations d'une part, sur les verbes de deplacement en francais d'autre part, il n'en existe pratiquement pas sur les noms de deplacement (ex. arrivee, promenade, sortie, passage). Une analyse detaillee de la nominalisation des verbes de deplacement en francais revele cependant toute une serie de problemes. L'objectif de cette etude est d'explorer la nominalisation dans le domaine du deplacement en essayant de saisir ses specificites et ses regularites. L'analyse est fondee sur un corpus de 225 verbes de deplacement (non pronominaux) intransitifs, transitifs directs et indirects.
... There are no files associated with this item. Recommended Citation. Mulder, de, Walter; Amiot... more ... There are no files associated with this item. Recommended Citation. Mulder, de, Walter; Amiot,Dany - Préposition **contre** préfixe - In: Contre: identité sémantique et variation catégorielle / Péroz, Pierre [edit.] . - Metz : Université de Metz, 2003 . ... Mulder, de, Walter; Amiot, Dany ...
GROSSMAN M. & THORNTON AM (éds), La …, 2005
La composition dans les langues. Artois Presses …, 2008
La composition dite « neoclassique » se distingue de ce que nous appellerons desormais la composi... more La composition dite « neoclassique » se distingue de ce que nous appellerons desormais la composition « ordinaire » par le fait qu’elle met en jeu au moins un constituant directement issu du fonds patrimonial que constituent le latin et le grec (moyennant une mise au gabarit phonologique minimale dans la langue cible), ce constituant, dit lui aussi « neoclassique », ayant la propriete de ne pas pouvoir fonctionner par ailleurs comme atome pour la syntaxe dans la langue d’accueil. Ce type de composition est a l’oeuvre dans des langues romanes comme le francais ou l’italien, mais aussi dans des langues germaniques comme l’allemand ou l’anglais. Le constituant neoclassique peut se situer a gauche du compose, a sa droite, voire a gauche et a droite. Dans les langues romanes, l’ordre des constituants est en outre different, selon qu’il s’agit de composition neoclassique ou de composition ordinaire : dans le premier cas, le constituant semantiquement recteur se trouve a droite, dans le second, il est a gauche. Cette difference ne s’observe pas dans les langues germaniques, ou le constituant semantiquement recteur est toujours a droite. Meme si ces deux proprietes (avoir un constituant neoclassique, presenter un ordre neoclassique) sont associees dans la composition neoclassique du francais, nous les dissocierons dans le present travail, dans la mesure ou l’ordre dans les composes neoclassiques ne leur est pas specifique, comme le montrent des exemples comme petrodollar ou euromissile qui sont des hyponymes de leur constituant droit et qui, a ce titre, peuvent etre dits a ordre neoclassique. C'est a l'examen de chacune de ces proprietes qu'est consacre le present travail.
Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation
The paper focuses on the relationships between so-called diminutive/augmentative morphology and a... more The paper focuses on the relationships between so-called diminutive/augmentative morphology and approximation. As this topic is very broad, only the denominal nouns are studied in this article. Our study, based on data from French and Serbian, has a twofold aim: to answer the question asked in the title of this article and, the answer being negative, try to understand why only diminutive suffixes, and not augmentative ones, can express approximation. This should also allow us to understand the specificity of diminutive approximation. Firstly, we show that even though both types of evaluatives express non-conformity with respect to a norm, in the case of diminution the norm is not reached, whereas augmentation entails that the norm is not only reached but is exceeded. This suggests that approximation is fundamentally associated with a certain degree of deficiency, which is consistent with the literature on this topic. Secondly, we demonstrate that the main peculiarity of diminutive a...
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Nov 28, 2022
Dans cette communication, nous presenterons les resultats d’une nouvelle recherche sur le process... more Dans cette communication, nous presenterons les resultats d’une nouvelle recherche sur le processus d’ « affixisation ». Ce processus implique que certains lexemes peuvent se grammaticaliser en affixes (prefixes ou suffixes). L’etude portera plus particulierement sur la grammaticalisation de noms en affixes, en francais et en neerlandais. Apres une presentation de la theorie de l’affixisation et de l’interet de l’approche constructionnelle pour ce domaine de recherche, nous analyserons 5 cas specifiques : les constructions neerlandaises N-boer (p.ex. groenteboer ‘marchand de legumes’, visboer ‘marchand de poisson’, krantenboer ‘marchand de journaux ’), stok-A (stokstijf ‘raide comme un piquet’, stokoud ‘tres vieux’, stokdoof ‘sourd comme un pot’) et sleutel-N (p.ex. sleutelwoord ‘mot-cle’, sleutelbegrip ‘notion-cle’, sleutelfunctie ‘fonction-cle’) et les constructions francaises N-cle (p.ex. mot-cle, notion-cle, fonction-cle) et bebe-N (p.ex. bebe elephant, bebe maison, bebe voiture).
Dutch and French share a construction in which an element X occurs in a reduplicative coordinatio... more Dutch and French share a construction in which an element X occurs in a reduplicative coordination pattern: [X maar dan ook X] (lit. 'X but then also X') in Dutch and [X mais alors X] (lit. 'X but then X') in French (for Dutch, see Hoeksema (2001) and Cappelle (2012)). In both languages, this pattern can be used to put emphasis on X: (1) wij hebben alles maar dan ook alles gedaan om die mensen goed te begeleiden (... ) (CGN, shortened) 'lit. We have done everything but then also everything to guide these people appropriately' (2) je ne comprends pas les Wallons mais alors pas-du-tout (Valibel, shortened) 'lit. I do not understand the Walloons but then really not' Since these patterns combine a fixed sequence (maar dan ook / mais alors) with a variable element X (a (universal) quantifier, a degree adverb, an adjective, etc.) and since their emphatic meaning is not (entirely) predictable from their components, they seem to act like constructional idioms...
L’antériorité temporelle dans la préfixation en français
Bern : Peter Lang eBooks, Apr 22, 2011
... There are no files associated with this item. Recommended Citation. Amiot, Dany; Mulder, de, ... more ... There are no files associated with this item. Recommended Citation. Amiot, Dany; Mulder, de, Walter; Moline, Estelle; Stosic, Dejan - Ars Grammatica : hommages à Nelly Flaux - http://hdl.handle.net/10067/1013810151162165141 This item appears in the following Collection( ...
The Construction of Words, 2018
This chapter deals with adjectives used as nouns in French. Such uses of adjectives are cross-lin... more This chapter deals with adjectives used as nouns in French. Such uses of adjectives are cross-linguistically attested, and in recent years there have been numerous studies on this topic, often in a cross-linguistic perspective. Two kinds of interpretation are generally distinguished for these nouns: either the noun is abstract and refers to the property denoted by the adjective; or it is concrete and countable and refers to an individual, generally a human being. This study will focus on the latter, named de-adjectival human nouns. We will first present the main properties of de-adjectival human nouns in French, then we will give an account of the literature on de-adjectival nouns. Such nouns are generally analysed as being either syntactically derived or morphologically converted from adjectives. We will show, however, that both types of analysis suffer drawbacks. Finally, in line with the framework of Construction Grammar, we will provide an alternative analysis, in terms of syntactic coercion.
The notion of compounding generally has a more extensive scope in French morphology than in the l... more The notion of compounding generally has a more extensive scope in French morphology than in the literature on Germanic languages. In this talk, we focus on [N1 N2] units in French, but before doing so we present the different approaches to complex lexical units in French and show how true morphological formations (i.c. compounds) can be distinguished from multi-word phrases. We will outline three different approaches dealing with compounding in the French tradition: non-restrictive, scalar and restrictive (lexicalist). Although we believe morphological formations should be distinguished from syntactic formations, it is insightful to highlight their shared potential for expressing the same denominative functions. We will therefore add a fourth approach: we believe a constructionist, non-modular approach to the language system provides a more appropriate account. From this perspective, both compounds and phrasal structures with a naming function can act as conventionalized form-meaning pairings or ‘constructions’ and we should accept the existence of what Booij (2010: 190) calls ‘lexical phrasal constructions’, namely phrasal constructions that are stored in the (mental) lexicon. Furthermore, we show that [N1 N2] lexical units turn out to be the most problematic case in French since it is not easy to determine whether this formation belongs to syntax or morphology. A specific subtype, that of subordinative [N1 N2] units, will be examined in detail because the latter most severely challenge the morphology-syntax divide. Whereas Fradin (2009) considers these formations to be true compounds, we will show that this only holds for the classifying subtype, and not for the qualifying one. Finally, we will show how a constructionist account can be fruitfully applied to qualifying subordinative [N1 N2] formations. References Booij, Geert (2010). Construction Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fradin, Bernard (2009). IE, Romance: French. In: Lieber, Rochelle and Štekauer, Pavol (eds.): The Oxford handbook of compounding. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 417–435
Dutch laat staan and French encore moins: Constructional effects Marking the twenty-fifth anniver... more Dutch laat staan and French encore moins: Constructional effects Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of Fillmore, Kay and O’Connor’s (FKO, 1988) seminal paper on construction grammar, this paper explores various non-compositional effects of the commonest expressions corresponding to let alone in Dutch and French: laat staan (lit. ‘let stand’) and encore moins (lit. ‘still less’), respectively, the latter alternating with the expression encore plus (lit. ‘still more’) in affirmative contexts: (1) a. I can’t walk let alone run. → nl: laat staan; fr: encore moins b. I struggle to walk let alone run. → nl: laat staan; fr: encore plus Drawing extensively on data systematically gathered from corpora (CGN, DPC, GlossaNet, Linguee, Valibel), the web, and sound recordings, we show that these expressions exhibit language-specific idiosyncrasies and must be stored along with detailed knowledge about (i) the syntactic properties of their possible grammatical environments, (ii) the semantico-pr...
Si de tres nombreux travaux ont deja ete proposes sur les nominalisations d'une part, sur les... more Si de tres nombreux travaux ont deja ete proposes sur les nominalisations d'une part, sur les verbes de deplacement en francais d'autre part, il n'en existe pratiquement pas sur les noms de deplacement (ex. arrivee, promenade, sortie, passage). Une analyse detaillee de la nominalisation des verbes de deplacement en francais revele cependant toute une serie de problemes. L'objectif de cette etude est d'explorer la nominalisation dans le domaine du deplacement en essayant de saisir ses specificites et ses regularites. L'analyse est fondee sur un corpus de 225 verbes de deplacement (non pronominaux) intransitifs, transitifs directs et indirects.
... There are no files associated with this item. Recommended Citation. Mulder, de, Walter; Amiot... more ... There are no files associated with this item. Recommended Citation. Mulder, de, Walter; Amiot,Dany - Préposition **contre** préfixe - In: Contre: identité sémantique et variation catégorielle / Péroz, Pierre [edit.] . - Metz : Université de Metz, 2003 . ... Mulder, de, Walter; Amiot, Dany ...
GROSSMAN M. & THORNTON AM (éds), La …, 2005
La composition dans les langues. Artois Presses …, 2008
La composition dite « neoclassique » se distingue de ce que nous appellerons desormais la composi... more La composition dite « neoclassique » se distingue de ce que nous appellerons desormais la composition « ordinaire » par le fait qu’elle met en jeu au moins un constituant directement issu du fonds patrimonial que constituent le latin et le grec (moyennant une mise au gabarit phonologique minimale dans la langue cible), ce constituant, dit lui aussi « neoclassique », ayant la propriete de ne pas pouvoir fonctionner par ailleurs comme atome pour la syntaxe dans la langue d’accueil. Ce type de composition est a l’oeuvre dans des langues romanes comme le francais ou l’italien, mais aussi dans des langues germaniques comme l’allemand ou l’anglais. Le constituant neoclassique peut se situer a gauche du compose, a sa droite, voire a gauche et a droite. Dans les langues romanes, l’ordre des constituants est en outre different, selon qu’il s’agit de composition neoclassique ou de composition ordinaire : dans le premier cas, le constituant semantiquement recteur se trouve a droite, dans le second, il est a gauche. Cette difference ne s’observe pas dans les langues germaniques, ou le constituant semantiquement recteur est toujours a droite. Meme si ces deux proprietes (avoir un constituant neoclassique, presenter un ordre neoclassique) sont associees dans la composition neoclassique du francais, nous les dissocierons dans le present travail, dans la mesure ou l’ordre dans les composes neoclassiques ne leur est pas specifique, comme le montrent des exemples comme petrodollar ou euromissile qui sont des hyponymes de leur constituant droit et qui, a ce titre, peuvent etre dits a ordre neoclassique. C'est a l'examen de chacune de ces proprietes qu'est consacre le present travail.