Critères de figement: L’identification des expressions figées en français contemporain
2004 (French)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
Although there are units larger than the word in language, linguists have not been able to agree on a definition of these units. This study examines a variety of notions, relevant in the study of ”fixed” or ”frozen” expressions in contemporary French. Criteria such as memorization, unique context, non-compositionality, marked syntax, lexical blocking and grammatical blocking are analyzed in detail. A closer look at them reveals that in fact only one of them, lexical blocking, is both necessary and sufficient in the description of a fixed expression. The other criteria are, however, also important to the notion of ”fixedness”. It may well be that the criteria that have often been proposed in linguistic literature would benefit from being organized in a family resemblance rather than being used as necessary and sufficient conditions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Umeå: Moderna språk , 2004. , p. 197
Series
Skrifter från moderna språk, ISSN 1650-304X ; 15
Keywords [en]
French language, memorization, unique context, compositionality, non-compositionality, marked syntax, lexical blocking, grammatical blocking, fixedness, frozenness, literal meaning, figurative meaning, motivation, non-motivation, transparency, opacity, analyzability, unanalyzability, idiom, proverb, collocation, metaphor, phraseology
Keywords [fr]
mémorisation, contexte unique, compositionnalité, non-compositionnalité, syntaxe marquée, blocage lexical, blocage grammatical, figement, défigement, sens propre, sens figuré, motivation, non-motivation, transparance, opacité, analysabilité, inanalysabilité, idiome, proverbe, collocation, phrasème, gallicisme, locution, métaphore
Keywords [sv]
Franska
National Category
Specific Languages
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-335ISBN: 91-7305-722-3 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-335DiVA, id: diva2:143138
Public defence
2004-11-05, 10:00 (English)
2004-10-112004-10-112018-06-09Bibliographically approved