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La variation dans la construction verbale en français de Côte-d’Ivoire

Béatrice Akissi Boutin
AbstractThe article describes several variants of verbal constructions of Ivory Coast French comparing them to the French of France about transitive and intransitive constructions, locative constructions and their possible sub-structures. It shows that the Ivorian system of language offers many possibilities : omitting a number of elements or allowing alternations of constructions. But at the same time, it generally goes along the evolution of the language observed elsewhere. Through the following description, we wish to contribute to the preliminaries of a Lexicon-Grammar of Ivory Coast French in connection with other varieties of French. It would give teachers, publishers and anyone interested in Ivorian French an analysis of its variation and a comprehensive view of the facts. Even if there exist several varieties of French in Ivory Coast, they have much in common and remain close to similar phenomena in basic standard French.

Des déclencheurs des énumérations d’entités nommées sur le Web

Caroline Bush
AbstractThe Web is an important resource for lexical acquisition, particularly for the acquisition of named entities. Enumerations are particularly prolific on the Web where economy and clarity are important to aid comprehension. Enumerations of named entities share certain characteristics, and by understanding these traits we can exploit the information that these structures hold. In this article we study one characteristic in particular, the trigger: the sequence that introduces an enumeration. Because a trigger sequence has several strict functions, its structure is limited. Our aim is to model this structure by means of an interpretative and descriptive linguistic analysis. The resulting models contribute to a system for acquiring named entities from the Web.

Inventaire de la terminologie géographique au Québec

Louis-Edmond Hamelin
AbstractThe author recognizes some international and Québec dictionaries and explains his own approach. Since 1950’s, lexical research is made in academic Department of geography (notably, Gécet, Laval Un., 1966) and in The government Commission of Toponymy, reorganized by 1977). Works by geographers are countered by an elusive definition of geography, a shortage of terminological interest (outside the geomorphological field), inadequacy of knowledge in language sciences, use of common words in a scientific field. Nevertheless, some geographers produce contributions in terminology, notably, dictionaries in global, thematic and regional geographies. During 2000-2003 years, some 20 000 nymes received definition.

La construction discursive du concept de la souveraineté dans les médias canadiens lors du référendum de 1995

Sylvie Gagnon
AbstractThis article is designed as a contribution to the description and analysis of linguistic mechanisms used in the discursive formation of the referendum discourse of the Canadian media in 1995. More particularly, it is a question of studying the discursive differences of the two Canadian linguistic groups in the daily newspapers with regard to the use of the word “sovereignty”. Its functional labelling and quantification allows a better understanding of its status and discursive importance in the referendum debate. The methodology is based on CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis), as developed by Fairclough 2001, Fowler et al. 1979 and Kress and Hodge 1979, as well as Halliday’s functional grammar.

Expressing Duration and Temporal Relationships by Means of the Present Perfect Progressive

Claude Bégin
AbstractThe Present Perfect Progressive often expresses an activity reaching up to the present, as in He has been speaking for two hours. Here the subject is represented after part of the event, hence the impression of an unfinished activity. In some cases, however, the completed portion of the event represents almost the whole event, as we shall see with explicit examples. In other cases still, the Present Perfect Progressive expresess a just- finished event, where the subject is situated after the whole event’s duration. The aim of this article is to answer the following question: how can the Present Perfect Progressive express different moments of the event’s duration and so evoke different types of events? As we shall see, the answer lies in the way that events are expressed by the present participle.

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