| Titre | Entre le plus et le moins : l'ambivalence du déterminant plusieurs | |
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| Auteur | Jacqueline Bacha | |
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Revue | Langue française |
| Numéro | no 116, décembre 1997 Indéfinis et références, sous la direction de Walter de Mulder et Nelly Flaux | |
| Page | 49-60 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The acquisition of the French indefinites plusieurs and quelques is highly problematic for Tunisian children, despite the frequent use of French in Tunisia, especially in school and at the university. We show that this is due to the mistaken idea that these indefinite forms signal different quantities, plusieurs alledgedly referring to a greater quantity than quelques. We further show that this idea cannot be upheld, since both forms can refer to exactly the same quantity, and we defend the idea that plusieurs signals a positive and precise orientation — and is related to exact counting — , whereas quelques tends to direct interpretation towards the negative and the less precise. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/doc/lfr_0023-8368_1997_num_116_1_6231 |
