Frozen structure and concessive relations: a complex predication

  • Salah Mejri Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris 13
Keywords: concession; grammaticalization; frozen strutures; complex predicate; predication.

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the concessive relation, as a complex predication, under the scope of the freezing concept. After having defined the three terms of the analysis, we proceed to the description of the concessive relation, which includes several predicates at a time. This complexity is fixed in the language through grammaticalization, as a form of freezing, by means of grammatical expressions used to structure the organization of the predicative relations in the utterance, whether sentencial or multi-sentencial. This fixation in the language declines the same concessive relation with semantic nuances that testify to the richness of this complex predication.

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Salah Mejri, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris 13

Professeur des universités, Université Paris13

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Published
2019-06-05
How to Cite
Mejri S. (2019). Frozen structure and concessive relations: a complex predication. Thélème. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses, 34(1), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.5209/thel.64091