This study examines Left Dislocation (LD) in Russian within the Fribourg Pragma-Syntax framework, originally developed for the analysis of French in authentic discourse. Drawing on data from the spoken subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus, we argue that LD constitutes a macro-syntactic… read more
Il est traditionnellement considéré qu’en français l’emploi des interrogatives dépend de valeurs sociolinguistiques. Nous discuterons ici d’une approche alternative en termes de ‘potentiel interactif’, concept défini comme la capacité pour des structures grammaticales de faciliter l’échange… read more
This chapter explores in a theoretical manner the potential correlations, previously suggested by Heine et al. (2015), between hemispheric specialization in neurolinguistics and a dual organization of discourse. The dual processing of language is represented here by the pragma-syntax, the level… read more