Project

The French verb in a constructional perspective

Code
01SS0112
Duration
05 February 2012 → 31 December 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
verb french semantics Linguistics syntax
 
Project description

The elaboration of a global construction grammar of the French verb with special attention to (1) the outline of an adequate verbtypology; (2) the analysis of the mechanisms which lay at the basis of the most frequent meaning extensions; (3) a thorough analysis of some specific verbclasses (perception, cognition, transfer and communication).