Article indéfini et nom en français et en allemand

• Publication type: Journal article
• Journal:
  Cahiers de lexicologie
  2013 – 2, n° 103
  . Lexique des noms, regards croisés
• Author: Herslund (Mickael)
• Abstract: When comparing the use of the indefinite article in French and German one realizes that there is a fundamental difference between the two languages. All French nouns have a plural and combine with the three indefinite articles un, du and des, whereas in German the semantics of the noun is reflected in the possibility of having a plural and of combining with the indefinite article.This paper proposes as an explanation of this difference the indefinite articles in French constitute a system of classifiers, which classify noun phrases as either homo- or heterogeneous, and thereby establish their extension, whereas the only indefinite article in Germanis a quantifier that operates on the semantic make-up of the noun (its intension).
• Pages: 37 to 45
• Journal: Journal of Lexicology
• CLIL theme: 3147 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage
• EAN: 9782812420795
• ISBN: 978-2-8124-2079-5
• ISSN: 2262-0346
• DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-2079-5.p.0037
• Publisher: Classiques Garnier
• Online publication: 01-17-2014
• Periodicity: Biannual
• Language: French
• Keyword: Article, indefinite, homogeneous / heterogeneous, countable / uncountable, plural, classifier, quantifier, intension / extension

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