15.3043, Diss: Historical Ling/Semantics: Leoue: 'Sémantaxe...'

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Subject: 15.3043, Diss: Historical Ling/Semantics: Leoue: 'Sémantaxe...'                                                                                                                                                       

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Date: 24-Oct-2004
From: Jean LEOUE < leoue at online.fr >
Subject: Sémantaxe et Grammaticalisation de DO en anglais: approche contrastive (The Semantics and Grammaticalization of 'DO' in English - A Contrastive Approach) 
 

	
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:24:48
From: Jean LEOUE < leoue at online.fr >
Subject: Sémantaxe et Grammaticalisation de DO en anglais: approche contrastive (The Semantics and Grammaticalization of 'DO' in English - A Contrastive Approach) 
 
Institution: University of Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Program: English Department, Institut du Monde Anglophone 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2004 

Author: Jean Gilbert Leoue

Dissertation Title: Sémantaxe et Grammaticalisation de DO en anglais: approche
contrastive (The Semantics and Grammaticalization of 'DO' in English - A
Contrastive Approach) 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Subject Language(s):
English (Code: ENG) 

Dissertation Director(s):
Claude M. DELMAS

Dissertation Abstract:

The subject of this contrastive study is fourfold: (a) it takes into
account the inference of languages in contact in the diachronic development
of English language; and it builds up a hypothesis on the origin of
periphrastic DO; (b) this study lays its foundations on established facts
from diachrony and etymology to claim that the grammaticalization of DO did
not entail any process of desemantisation; (c) it also resorts to an
invariant-meaning approach to show that the auxiliary DO - just like its
lexical counterpart - is not meaningless in natural language; (d) it
carries out a critical analysis of current trends on either a binary
categorization or a ternary categorization for DO-forms (lexical verb (vs.
proverb) vs. auxiliary). Then, this study shows that the proform DO SO can
indeed substitute for purely stative predicates; and, as an operator of
'thesis', DO has an enunciative function which accounts for its occurrences
as well as its non-occurrences in the linear structuring.


Fondée sur une approche contrastive, cette étude a quatre objectifs : (a)
considérer l'inférence des langues en contact dans le développement
diachronique de l'anglais et bâtir une hypothèse sur l'origine de l'emploi
périphrastique de DO; (b) s'appuyer sur les faits avérés en diachronie et
en étymologie pour montrer que la grammaticalisation de DO n'est pas le
résultat d'un processus de désémantisation; (c) partir d'une démarche
fondée sur l'invariance pour montrer que tout comme sa contrepartie
lexicale, la forme auxiliée de DO a bien une signification en langue
naturelle; (d) formuler une analyse critique des acceptions courantes en
terme de catégorisation binaire ou ternaire entre le lexical et
l'auxiliaire; ce qui permet de montrer d'une part que la proforme DO SO
peut effectivement reprendre des prédicats statifs purs, et d'autre part
qu'en tant qu'opérateur de 'thèse', DO a une fonction énonciative qui rend
compte non seulement de son occurrence, mais aussi de sa non-occurrence
dans le linéaire.



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