QUE complétif en français : essai d'analyse

In this paper, a unified description of the introducers of ‘completive subordinate clauses’ in French (as in Je crois qu’il va pleuvoir ‘I think that it is going to rain’) is given, taking into account the que P / ce que P variation (as in Je suis heureux que P / Je suis heureux de ce que P ‘I am...

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Autore principale: Le Goffic, Pierre
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Français
Pubblicazione: 2008
Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:In this paper, a unified description of the introducers of ‘completive subordinate clauses’ in French (as in Je crois qu’il va pleuvoir ‘I think that it is going to rain’) is given, taking into account the que P / ce que P variation (as in Je suis heureux que P / Je suis heureux de ce que P ‘I am happy that S’ / literally ‘I am happy of this that S’), and linking the ‘completive’ que to other uses of que (interrogative, relative, ...), within an overall theory of Qu-words (described in other papers). The basic hypothesis is that ‘ Qu- words’ in French, like their English counterparts ‘ Wh- words’, build a word class whose main characteristics is to introduce variables, in various manners corresponding to their different uses (interrogative, indefinite, subordinative, ...). No ‘complementizer’ is considered : que, in its function of introducing ‘completive subordinate clauses’, is a full-fledged ‘ Qu- word’, namely a pronoun used in a highly abstract way.