Linguistic controls that are used to assess a reader’s understanding

Porhiel, Sylvie

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2003.09.004

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“…Porhiel (2004a,b) and Anscombre (2006) agree, without providing quantitative data, however, that pour ce qui est de is most frequently combined with a definite NP (see (2) and (4)). Porhiel (2004bPorhiel ( : 1030, however, adds that the element following pour ce qui est de can also be an adverb ( (7)) 4 or an infinitival clause ( (8)). …”

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“…. ) (Porhiel, 2004b: 1023) Anscombre (2006: 168) and Flament-Boistrancourt (2002: 123) also mention the list-marking function of pour ce qui est de and au niveau (de), respectively: these TMs indicate that the theme has been selected from a list of other possible themes. 7 For instance, in (12), the crashed car evokes a list of parts that are possibly damaged: the engine, the coachwork, the lights, etc.…”

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“…called 'topicality markers' (Lagae, 2007c), 'marqueurs de topicalisation' (Combettes, 2003(Combettes, , 2007, 'thematic introducers' (Porhiel, 2004b) or 'introducteurs de cadres ou espaces discursifs' (Anscombre, 2006). The PPs they introduce are generally called 'topic-marking constructions '.…”

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“…Porhiel (2004bPorhiel ( : 1026 and Anscombre (2006) observe that the PPs en ce qui concerne and pour ce qui est de appear both in a clause-initial ((2)) and clause-final ((3-4)) position. The same holds for au niveau (de) (Flament-Boistrancourt, 2002: 120) ((5-6)).…”

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“…(Porhiel, 2004b(Porhiel, : 1030 (8) Pour ce qui est de crier, il sait. (Porhiel, 2004b(Porhiel, : 1030 …”

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Thematic markers in informal written French:pour ce qui est de, au niveau (de) and en matière de

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This paper studies three thematic markers (TMs) in informal written French: pour ce qui est de, au niveau (de) and en matière de. We will demonstrate that they have different syntactico-semantic and discourse-functional properties and that the exact function of the TM construction results from the interplay between the inherent properties of the TM and the specific syntactic construction it appears in. We will demonstrate that TMs do not only introduce the aboutness-topics, but that they can also establish the frame in which the main clause holds or functions.

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“…(Porhiel, 2004b(Porhiel, : 1030 (8) Pour ce qui est de crier, il sait. (Porhiel, 2004b(Porhiel, : 1030 …”

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constituents introduced by theming markers in French in the face of anteposed spatio-temporal complements

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This paper discusses the prosodic properties of sentence-initial spatio-temporal adverbials and of PPs introduced by so-called 'thematic markers' (TMCs), such as en ce qui concerne ('as for') or du point de vue de ('with regard to'). Their function is to indicate the aboutness-topic (a.o. Reinhart 1981, Gundel 1989, Lambrecht 1994) (1) or the topic Chinese style (Chafe 1976) (2). (1) Concernant le programme, il doit différer selon les universités et les profs. (2) Mais quand on peut il faut impérativement regarder BBC News. En ce moment, au niveau de l'info, ils sont vraiment au top. (YCCQA, De Smet 2009) Mertens (2008) hypothesizes that in certain syntactic constructions such as left dislocations, (pseudo-)clefts and certain adjuncts, the articulation between the left detached element (the dislocated element, the focus of the cleft, the adjunct) and the main clause is followed by a major prosodic boundary, i.e. they end on a relative high pitch level. It appears from our corpus that most TMCs end on such a major prosodic boundary (73%). As for sentence-initial spatio-temporal PPs, only 41% end on a major prosodic boundary. There are two important differences between TMCs and sentence-initial spatio-temporal PPs which explain that a strong prosodic boundary at the end of a TMC is more frequent than at the end of sentence-initial spatio-temporal adverbials. Semantically, sentence-initial spatio-temporal adverbials always limit the application range of the main clause, but not all TMCs affect the truth values of the proposition. Some can be omitted without changing the signification of the clause. On the syntactic level, sentence-initial spatio-temporal adverbials can always appear in the scope of a cleft or can be moved towards the end of the utterance without the proposition becomes ungrammatical. TMCs which affect the truth values of the proposition can also appear in the scope of the cleft or can be moved to the end of the proposition. TMCs which do not affect the truth values of the proposition do not allow these syntactic tests. Possibility of clefting, movement and specification of the main clause are used as tests (a.o. Melis 1983, Blanche-Benveniste et al. 1990) to show whether a constituent is linked to the verb phrase. This paper shows that sentence-initial spatial-temporal PPs are linked to the verb phrase, but that this is not the case for all TMCs. These syntactic and semantic observations explain the high frequency of the strong prosodic boundary at the end of a TMC.

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Linguistic controls that are used to assess a reader’s understanding

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Thematic markers in informal written French:pour ce qui est de, au niveau (de) and en matière de

Thematic markers in informal written French:pour ce qui est de, au niveau (de) and en matière de

constituents introduced by theming markers in French in the face of anteposed spatio-temporal complements

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