| Titre | Une construction complexe N°hum être Adj de V°-inf W caractéristique de certains adjectifs à sujet humain | |
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| Auteur | Annie Meunier | |
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Revue | Langages |
| Numéro | no 133, mars 1999 Lexique-grammaire des adjectifs, sous la direction de Éric Laporte | |
| Page | 12-44 | |
| Résumé anglais |
This article is about a complex construction in French with an infinitive clause that seems to be an adverbial complement of a structure No être Adj with a human subject, for instance : Paul a été honnête d'intervenir. The properties of this construction are studied and contrasted with those of a construction with a closely related meaning but with a sentential subject : Que Paul soit intervenu est honnête de sa part. The human-subject construction is shown to be a feature of a class of adjectives which are independently characterized by the distribution of their subject. This construction defines them as adjectives of psychological qualities, as opposed to adjectives qualifying a physical behaviour or a look (gracieux, souple), a mood (mélancolique) or a feeling (triste). Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/doc/lgge_0458-726x_1999_num_33_133_2183 |
