Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique
Ce séminaire reçoit des conférenciers invités spécialisés dans différents domaines de la linguistique. Les membres du Département, les étudiants et les personnes externes intéressées sont tous cordialement invités. Description du séminaire 
| Titre | In situ wh-interrogatives in French: a fresh perspective on an old debate |
| Conférencier | Caterina Bonan (University of Cambridge) |
| Date | jeudi 15 décembre 2022 changement de jour |
| Heure | 16h15 changement d'horaire |
| Salle | Les Philosophes 013 changement de salle |
| Description | In situ wh-interrogatives in French: a fresh perspective on an old debate (joint work with Lena Baunaz) In the last five decades, French wh-in situ questions have been the centre of much work in theoretical linguistics. Nonetheless, scholars still disagree on the distribution of these constructions, and on their interpretation. Is wh-in situ presuppositional, strongly presuppositional, or not necessarily so? The question has been debated for years, but it might not be the right one to ask. In this work, we study the ESLO 1 and 2 corpora of spoken French through an innovative lens, that of ‘activation’ (Dryer 1996, Larrivée 2019, Garassino 2022). We thus provide a novel understanding of the contexts in which these structures are licenced, and how they have evolved over time. |
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