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La Francophonie Littéraire Du Sud: De L'Unité Linguistique À La Diversité Culturelle, Najib Redouane Jan 2000

La Francophonie Littéraire Du Sud: De L'Unité Linguistique À La Diversité Culturelle, Najib Redouane

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This study will focus on the diversity, conjunction and separation of Francophone literatures of the South (Africa, Antilles and Maghreb). The aim is to underscore the characteristics and differences of this literary production in order, on the one hand, to consider its originality and sphere of influence and, on the other hand, to appreciate its singularity and plurality.


De La Bilangue De Khatibi À L'A-Langue Amère De Fouad Laroui: Amour Bilangue Ou Méfiez-Vous Des Parachustistes, Mireille Rosello Jan 2000

De La Bilangue De Khatibi À L'A-Langue Amère De Fouad Laroui: Amour Bilangue Ou Méfiez-Vous Des Parachustistes, Mireille Rosello

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Fouad Laroui puts forth a new model of relationship to the language, one that separates from the idealized notion of the mother- language couple (place of origin and tradition, allegorical figure of the colonized and humiliated country) that characterized the previous generation of writers from the Maghreb. In so doing, he puts a new focus on the issue of French as the «dominant language».


Transitivity And The Choice Of A Preposition In Any Language, Valerie Hascoet Jan 2000

Transitivity And The Choice Of A Preposition In Any Language, Valerie Hascoet

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This thesis examines the question of determination of transitivity for a verb through a comparison of processes involved in English and in French. It takes in several theories belonging to the area of the syntax-semantics interface in order to understand how a predicate is construed as either intransitive or direct transitive or indirect transitive in either language.The study focuses on a corpus of verbs that present different argument structures in French and in English. It analyses the various factors that determine the choice of a transitivity status for a given predicate. It discusses whether that process of determination lies in …