The syntax of French N$'$ phrases

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https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2004.1

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Of all French functional elements, the form de has without question the widest variety of uses, and presents the greatest challenge for linguistic description and analysis. Historically a preposition, it still has a number of prepositional uses in modern French, but in many contexts it calls for an altogether different treatment. We begin by outlining a general distinction between oblique and non-oblique uses of de. We then develop a detailed account of constructions where de combines with an N'. We provide a unitary analysis of de in three constructions (quantifier extraction, "quantification at a distance", and negative contexts) which have been not been considered to be related in previous accounts.

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2004-10-14

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Abeillé, Anne & Bonami, Olivier & Godard, Danièle & Tseng, Jesse. 2004. The syntax of French N$’$ phrases. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 6–26. (doi:10.21248/hpsg.2004.1) (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/578) (Accessed March 29, 2024.)