Morpho-syntaxe sémantique des nominaux propres

This paper analyses the morphosyntactic boundaries of proper names in English from the standpoint of the semantics of syntax (form-meaning relations). Typographic, morphological and syntactic properties of proper names are found to be iconically connected and lead to a renewed description of proper...

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Main Author: Manon Philippe
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Language:English
Published: Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO 2023-11-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/corela/16236
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description This paper analyses the morphosyntactic boundaries of proper names in English from the standpoint of the semantics of syntax (form-meaning relations). Typographic, morphological and syntactic properties of proper names are found to be iconically connected and lead to a renewed description of proper names as nominals – rather than simple nouns or noun phrases, as traditional descriptions would have them be. Proper nominals (proper names as syntactic nominals) integrate potentially marginal units into the nominal domain via a twofold process: 1) they showcase their formal and linguistic singularity while 2) imitating the morphosyntactic behaviour of common nouns. This analysis relies on the English common corpus, though examples from the French corpus are also used as most of the analysis remains valid in the French language.
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spelling doaj-art-d4ab068fecbf4c22822aaf8a0027f2ea2024-12-09T15:07:18ZengCercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICOCorela1638-573X2023-11-014010.4000/corela.16236Morpho-syntaxe sémantique des nominaux propresManon PhilippeThis paper analyses the morphosyntactic boundaries of proper names in English from the standpoint of the semantics of syntax (form-meaning relations). Typographic, morphological and syntactic properties of proper names are found to be iconically connected and lead to a renewed description of proper names as nominals – rather than simple nouns or noun phrases, as traditional descriptions would have them be. Proper nominals (proper names as syntactic nominals) integrate potentially marginal units into the nominal domain via a twofold process: 1) they showcase their formal and linguistic singularity while 2) imitating the morphosyntactic behaviour of common nouns. This analysis relies on the English common corpus, though examples from the French corpus are also used as most of the analysis remains valid in the French language.https://journals.openedition.org/corela/16236proper names; nominal; iconicity; typography; morphosyntax
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Morpho-syntaxe sémantique des nominaux propres
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proper names; nominal; iconicity; typography; morphosyntax
title Morpho-syntaxe sémantique des nominaux propres
title_full Morpho-syntaxe sémantique des nominaux propres
title_fullStr Morpho-syntaxe sémantique des nominaux propres
title_full_unstemmed Morpho-syntaxe sémantique des nominaux propres
title_short Morpho-syntaxe sémantique des nominaux propres
title_sort morpho syntaxe semantique des nominaux propres
topic proper names; nominal; iconicity; typography; morphosyntax
url https://journals.openedition.org/corela/16236
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