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Authors: SANDRA TESTON BONNARD.
DOI: 10.24193/subbphilo.2018.2.13
Published Online: 2017-05-15
Published Print: 2017-05-30
pp. 203-224
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Je te raconte pas! vraiment c’est… Short constructions. Between authentic and fictional spoken language, identifying some language units. The aim of this paper is to analyse a very frequent phenomenon in both spoken and written French: grammatically unfinished utterances. From a micro-syntactical point of view, these constructions lack a syntactic structure that one might expect from “finished” utterances. Using a two module syntactic approach (Deulofeu, 2009) – micro and macro syntax –, we argue that it is possible to interpret many of these constructions as macro-syntactic nuclei, that is autonomous structures, communicatively self-sufficient (Blanche-Benveniste, Bilger, Rouget, van den Eynde et Mertens, 1990: 112-114). Most of the times, interlocutors don’t mind the shortenings and accept the incompleteness of these constructions as it is. In these contexts autonomisation and recategorisation processes occur, as the lack of context would not allow proper interpretation of these constructions as macro-syntactic nuclei.
Keywords: micro-syntax, macro-syntax, unfinished utterances, macro-syntactic nucleus, spoken French.
