Browsing by Author "Leoue, Jean Gilbert"

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    Nominal Determination: Focus on a Few Operations in Cameroon Pidgin English
    Leoue, Jean Gilbert (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III, 1996-06)
    Based on a contrastive and variationist approach, this research work sheds light on the study of the structure of the Noun Phrase in Cameroon Pidgin English in contrast with Standard British English. Among other relevant topics, the following aspects of the NP are considered: the system of pronouns, nominal anaphora, the system of articles, the deictic implementation, quantification, intensification and reduplication.
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    Semantique Et Grammaticalisation De 'Do' En Anglais: Approche Contrastive (The Semantax And Grammaticalization Of 'Do' In English: A Contrastive Study)
    Leoue, Jean Gilbert (Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004-03)
    The subject of this contrastive study is fourfold: (a) it takes into account the inference of languages in contact in the diachronic development of English language; and it builds up a hypothesis on the origin of periphrastic DO; (b) this study lays its foundations on established facts from diachrony and etymology to claim that the grammaticalization of DO did not entail any process of desemantisation; (c) it also resorts to an invariant-meaning approach to show that the auxiliary DO – just like its lexical counterpart – is not meaningless in natural language; (d) it carries out a critical analysis of current trends on either a binary categorization or a ternary categorization for DO-forms (lexical verb (vs. proverb) vs. auxiliary). Then, this study shows that the proform DO SO can indeed substitute for purely stative predicates; and, as an operator of ‘thesis’, DO has an enunciative function which accounts for its occurrences as well as its non-occurrences in the linear structuring.