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- Title
On the mirative meaning of aller + infinitive compared with its equivalents in English.
- Authors
CELLE, Agnès; LANSARI, Laure
- Abstract
The aim of the present paper is twofold. It re-examines one meaning of aller + infinitive in French in terms of mirativity, a cross-linguistic category encoding surprising or unexpected information, and it proposes a comparison with two go-constructions in English:go V-ing and the binomial phrase go and V. The analysis is based on a sample of utterances drawn from French and English corpora (Frantext, BNC). It is argued that these constructions express surprise mainly in association with a negative evaluative judgement. It is also contended that mirativity intersects with Aktionsart. In French, aller + infinitive introduces a comment on the initial boundary. In English, a range of aspectual shades of meaning are conveyed by the two go-constructions.
- Subjects
LINGUISTICS in literature; LEXICAL grammar; ASPECT (Grammar); TEMPORAL clauses (Grammar); TEMPORAL constructions (Grammar)
- Publication
Cahiers Chronos, 2015, Vol 27, p289
- ISSN
1384-5357
- Publication type
Article