Andrée Borillo

Borillo, Andrée 2016 Faire le partage entre valeur d’argument et valeur d’attribut prépositionnel pour le prédicat être [de N/SN] À la recherche de la prédication: Autour des syntagmes prépositionnels, Marque-Pucheu, Christiane, Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa, Peter A. Machonis et Harald Ulland (dir.), pp. 27–52 | Article

Modèle prédicatif [être SP[de N/SN]] exemplifié par diverses structures de phrase pour lesquelles il s’agit de caractériser la fonction du SP par rapport au verbe être. En prenant comme critère les opérations syntaxiques applicables au SP [de N/SN] dans la dépendance d’un verbe autre que être, i.e.… read more

Borillo, Andrée 2008 La relation spatiale exprimée à travers l’adjectivation de noms concrets dénotant des composantes matérielles du monde physique naturel 25th Lexis and Grammar Conference, Mirto, Ignazio Mauro (ed.), pp. 241–255 | Article

Aurnague, Michel, Maud Champagne-Lavau, Laure Vieu, Andrée Borillo, Philippe Muller, Jean-Luc Nespoulous and Laure Sarda 2007 Categorizing spatial entities with frontal orientation: The role of function, motion and saliency in the processing of the French Internal Localization Nouns avant/devant The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition, Aurnague, Michel, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu (eds.), pp. 153–175 | Article

This chapter presents the results froma pointing task that examined French adult’s processing of Internal Localization Nouns (ILNs), with particular attention to avant (‘front’) and devant (‘front surface’). Performance in this task shows that the parameters governing the frontal orientation(s)… read more

Borillo, Andrée 2007 On the spatial meaning of contre in French: The role of entities and force dynamics The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition, Aurnague, Michel, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu (eds.), pp. 53–69 | Article

In its spatial use, the preposition contre (‘against’) applies to nouns that denote entities of the physical world, the notions of “tension” and “force and counterforce” proving to be central. We show that the degrees of intensity expressed by contre depend on: (1) the nature of the “figure” and… read more

Borillo, Andrée 2006 Fonction discursive de la structure d’ “inversion locative” Ordre des mots et topologie de la phrase française, Gerdes, Kim et Claude Muller (dir.), pp. 25–41 | Article

A locative inversion (LI) sentence is a distinct construction characterized by the presence in clause-initial position of a locative or temporal complement (which is either subcategorized by the verb or operates as an adjunct) followed by the verb itself followed by the subject . The discourse… read more

Borillo, Andrée 2005 Peut-on identifier et caractériser les formes lexicales de l’aspect en français? Les Périphrases Verbales, Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava et Nicole Le Querler (dir.), pp. 83–102 | Article

Borillo, Andrée 2004 Vers and Contre : Two Ways of Expressing Spatial Direction in French Adpositions of Movement, Cuyckens, Hubert, Walter De Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans (eds.), pp. 225–246 | Article

Among their different uses, the prepositions vers ‘toward’ and contre ‘against’ can both express the spatial relation of orientation or direction between two entities (figure and ground), although they provide two different ways of presenting this relation. This study tries to show how these two… read more

Borillo, Andrée 2004 Les adjectifs dérivés de noms de parties du corps dans les textes médicaux Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar: Papers in honour of Maurice Gross, Leclère, Christian, Éric Laporte, Mireille Piot and Max Silberztein (eds.), pp. 51–62 | Article

Among the large category of Adjectives, we selected an interesting subset of denominal adjectives issued from nouns referring to parts and regions of the human body — external parts as well as internal organs — called "Noms de parties du corps" (Npc). These adjectives are so massively used in… read more

Borillo, Andrée 2001 La détermination et la préposition de lieu à en français Détermination et Formalisation, Blanco, Xavier, Pierre-André Buvet et Zoé Gavriilidou (dir.), pp. 85 ff. | Article

Borillo, Andrée 1995 Quelques schémas de syntagmes à redoublement Tendances Récentes en Linguistique Française et Générale: Volume dédié à David Gaatone, Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava et Lucien Kupferman (dir.), pp. 95 ff. | Article

Borillo, Andrée 1988 L'expression de la Duree: Construction des Noms et des Verbes de Mesure Temporelle Lingvisticæ Investigationes 12:2, pp. 363–396 | Article

Several types of duration measurement verbs (Vmtd) can be isolated in french as the result of the description of different types of constructions that can occur with temporal nouns (Ntps) and duration nouns (Ndur). A series of syntactic and semantic properties can be gathered concerning these… read more

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