Verbless Sentences: An English and Russian Multidimensional Contrastive Corpus Study

Séminaire du laboratoire CRISCO · UR 4255, année 2024-2025, jeudi 13 février, à 14h, dans la salle de documentation du CRISCO, bâtiment N, sous-sol.

Programme

Antonina BONDARENKO (maîtresse de conférences en Linguistique anglaise, université de Caen Normandie, CRISCO)

Central to any theory of language is the question of what precisely constitutes a sentence. This seminar explores the theoretically controversial and often marginalized phenomenon of the verbless sentence, i.e. structures in which the typical syntactic marker of sentential status – the verbal predicate – is absent. Although such structures exist in many languages (e.g. Bertinetto et al., forthcoming; Goldberg & Perek, 2019; Bîlbîie, 2017; Landolfi et al., 2010; Merle, 2009; Elugardo & Stainton, 2005; Behr et al., 2005; Guillemin-Flescher, 2005; Fernández & Ginzburg, 2002; Lefeuvre, 2001; Benveniste, 1971), their study has been limited by challenges in automatic retrieval. We develop their processing and take a contrastive corpus approach to the phenomenon.
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