By Jean-Marc Dewaele
This ebook deals sharp new insights into the purchase and use of French as a overseas language. The authors are experts of their specific theoretical paradigms and concentrate on morphology, morpho-syntax, syntax, discourse, in addition to fluency within the French interlanguage from novices to complex novices with diversified first languages.
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Petit chat encore (Jean 2, 2;0) (Mimi 1, 2;0) ‘Aussi’, as a focusing adverb, is not considered by Cinque. We might consider it a variant of ‘encore’, indicating repetition: (4) ça aussi (Mimi 1, 2;0) in which case it would be assigned number 29. ) Other low-level adverbs are also among those to appear early: ‘mal’, ‘bien’ (Jean, Anne) and ‘vite’ (Jean, Anne). e. very low-level adverbs (verb-modifying and under the scope of negation, in Schlyter, 1977). ‘Comme ça’ is often used in isolation, accompanying an action, and sometimes the action is mentioned: (6) (a) (b) comme ça (ça marche) (on met) comme ça (Mimi 1, 2;0) (Dany 2, 2;6) ‘Comme ça’ is not mentioned by Cinque, but as a verb-modifying adverb of a similar type as ‘bien’, it probably comes near it in the hierarchy.
The third position among those presented above. In the present study, another phenomenon will be studied in this framework: the appearance and acquisition of adverbs. Such a study has been made possible by the work of Cinque (1999). According to Cinque’s very interesting and suggestive theory, adverbs are specifiers of the different FCs established for verbal categories such as mood, tense, aspect, etc. , occur in a hierarchy, the adverbs are also subject to the same hierarchy. g. adverbs of epistemic modality such as ‘probablement’), he/she also has access to the FC in question, and to the FCs below it, since the categories are hierarchically organised.
Vp Friday, December 10, 2004 11:57:14 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Focus on French as a Foreign Language 22 hypothesis is that these relatives play a role in the hierarchisation at a macro-syntactic level, a phenomenon we will come back to and develop below. If we suppose that the production of autonomous relatives has an impact at the macro-syntactic level, these relatives would be significant for the characterisation of the advanced learners’ discourse organisation. In the following section we will analyse the relative clauses with respect to the information structure.