David Gaatone

List of John Benjamins publications for which David Gaatone plays a role.

Articles

Gaatone, David 2005 Ces insupportables verbes supports: Le cas des verbes événementielsVerbes supports: Nouvel état des lieux, Gross, Gaston et Sophie de Pontonx (dir.), pp. 239–251 | Article
Among non predicative verbs such as copulas, auxiliaries and various modal verbs, the so-called “verbes supports” (light verbs) are by far the most numerous class, and, moreover, an ever expanding one. They are supposed to carry very little meaning, or no meaning at all and, as a consequence, have… read more
Gaatone, David 2004 Les prépositions forment-elles une classe?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. 211–221 | Article
Although a large amount of work has been done in the last two decades on French prepositions, there is still no general agreement about their definition. One first has to make a decision about the necessity of such a class, a decision which can be based on the impossibility of accounting for… read more