Autour de la preposition

Some authors approach this issue by way of comparison with other categories: prefixes (Heyna and Van Goethem), conjunctions (Piot) and, in the case of the Basque language, postpositions (Bottineau). Sahraoui's article deals with how agrammatical aphasia affects the use of prepositions in French...

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Published inJournal of French language studies Vol. 22; no. 2; p. 305
Main Authors Whittaker, Sunniva, François; Gilbert; Guimier; Krause, Jacques; Eric; Claude; Maxi
Format Journal Article
LanguageFrench
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.07.2012
Subjects
Aphasia
Basque language
Children
Conjunctions
Contrastive analysis
English language
French language
Grammaticalization
Intercultural communication
Native language acquisition
Prefixes
Prepositions
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Summary:Some authors approach this issue by way of comparison with other categories: prefixes (Heyna and Van Goethem), conjunctions (Piot) and, in the case of the Basque language, postpositions (Bottineau). Sahraoui's article deals with how agrammatical aphasia affects the use of prepositions in French and discusses whether the strategies used by subjects exhibiting aphasia can provide a better understanding of how prepositions function. Sekali and Morgenstern present a very interesting contrastive study on the acquisition of prepositions by French and English children showing that the characteristics of the language system greatly influence the grammaticalisation process and that French children display a wider use of prepositions with functional meanings than English children.
ISSN:0959-2695
1474-0079
DOI:10.1017/S0959269512000105