System organisation of French coordination items

  • Yulia V. Auseichyk Minsk State Linguistic University, 21 Zacharava Street, Minsk 220034, Belarus

Abstract

The article presents the system-structural organisation of the French nuclear and peripheral items of coordination in diachrony. It is shown that the whole of explicit means of coordination is an open dynamic non-equilibrium system consisting of particular co-evolving systems representing four types of relationships: conjunctive, disjunctive, adversative, causal. It is revealed that the system of nuclear coordinators, initially united on the basis of a common functional property to establish a connection between independent predicative units, is an ordered and balanced whole of elements with two centers of attraction: proper coordination and improper coordination. It has been established that each particular system is formed gradually and is built according to the prototypical principle of «core – periphery», the uneven appearance of peripheral units leads to multidirectional trends in the design of the coordination during the French language history. The general dynamics of the use of nuclear coordinators, peripheral coordinators and their combinations is determined.

Author Biography

Yulia V. Auseichyk, Minsk State Linguistic University, 21 Zacharava Street, Minsk 220034, Belarus

PhD (philology), docent; doctoral student of department of general linguistics

References

  1. Brunot F. La pensée et la langue. Méthodes, principes et plan d’une théorie nouvelle du langage appliquée au français. Paris: Masson; 1922. 954 р.
  2. Pottier В. Systématique des Éléments de relation: étude de morphosyntaxe structurale romane. Paris: Klincksieck; 1962. 375 р.
  3. Antoine G. La coordination en français. Paris: d’Artrey; 1958–1962. 2 volumes.
  4. Hobæk Haff M. Coordonnants et éléments coordonnés. Oslo: Solum Forlag; 1987. 211 р.
  5. Wilmet M. Grammaire rénovée du français. Bruxelles: De Boeck; 2007. 331 р.
  6. Rousseau A, Begioni L, Quayle N, Roulland D, editors. La coordination. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes; 2007. 404 p.
  7. Marchello-Nizia Ch, Combettes B, Prévost S, Scheer T, editors. Grande grammaire historique du français. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton; 2020. 2185 р.
  8. Grevisse M. Le bon usage. Grammaire frainçaise. Paris: Duculot; 2018. 1762 р.
  9. Riegel M, Pellat J-C, Rioul R. Grammaire méthodique du français. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France; 2016. 1110 р.
  10. Gak VG. Teoreticheskaya grammatika frantsuzskogo yazyka [Theoretical grammar of the French language]. Moscow: Dobro¬svet; 2000. 832 p. Russian.
  11. Rodriguez-Somolinos A. Ainz et mais en ancien français. Romania. 2002;120:505–541.
  12. Lambert F. Et: un cas de grammaticalisation? Travaux linguistiques du Cerlico: Grammaticalisation 2. Concepts et cas. 2001;14:113–134.
  13. Combettes B. Approche diachronique des adverbiaux contextuels. LINX. 1995;3:33–50.
  14. Forsgren M. Les connecteurs de fait, en fait, en effet, effectivement: observations empiriques effectuées dans des contextes discursifs variés. Syntaxe et Sémantique. 2009;1(10):51–64.
  15. Rossari C. Les adverbes-connecteurs: vers une identification de la classe et des sous-classes. Cahiers de linguistique française. 2002;24:1–44.
  16. Kukushkina IN. Kontseptual’noye soderzhaniye sochinitel’nogo soyuza «et» v slozhnosochinennom predlozhenii v sovremen¬nom frantsuzskom yazyke [The conceptual content of the coordinating conjunction «et» in a compound sentence in modern French] [dissertation]. Irkutsk: Irkutsk State Linguistic University; 2002. 161 p. Russian.
  17. Reboul A, Moeschler J. Pragmatique du discours. De l’interprétation de l’énoncé à l’interprétation du discours. Paris: Armand Colin; 1998. 220 p.
  18. Kudryavtseva N. B. Diskurs i sistema sochinitel’nykh soyuzov sovremennogo frantsuzskogo yazyka [Discourse and the system of coordinating conjunctions of modern French] [dissertation]. Moscow: Moscow State Linguistic University; 2009. 388 p. Russian.
  19. Dubois J, Jouannon G, Lagane R. Grammaire française. Paris: Larousse; 1984. 175 р.
  20. Charaudeau P. Grammaire du sens et de l’expression. Paris: Hachette Éducation; 1992. 927 р.
  21. Referovskaya EA. Sintaksis sovremennogo frantsuzskogo yazyka. Slozhnoe predlozhenie [Syntax of modern French language. Complex sentence]. Leningrad: Nauka; 1969. 238 p. Russian.
  22. Weinrich H. Grammaire textuelle du français. Paris: Didier-Hatier, 1989; 672 р.
  23. Martinet A. Grammaire fonctionnelle du français. Paris: Crédif-Didier, 1979; 276 p.
  24. Kudryavtseva NB. Controversial issues in grammar: on the composition of conjunctions in the French language. Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 19. Linguistics and Intercultural Communication. 2010;2:81–87. Russian.
  25. Badiou-Monferran Cl. Les conjonctions de coordination ou «l’art de lier ses pensées» chez La Bruyère. Paris: Champion; 2000. 645 р.
  26. Roig A. Quel mode de liaison dans les corrélatives isomorphes «plus… plus» et «autant… autant»? In: Zaharee A, editor. Actes du Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française; 2014 July 19–23; Berlin; Germany. Berlin: Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française; 2014. p. 2533–2549.
  27. Benzitoun Ch. Approche comparative de la notion de degré en syntaxe à travers l’opposition entre subordination et coordina¬tion. Travaux de linguistique. 2007;54:121–132.
  28. Rosch E, Lloyd B. Princilpes of categorisation. In: Rosch E, Lloyd B, editors. Cognition and categorisation. Hillsdale: Law¬rence Erlbaum Associates; 1978. p. 27–48.
  29. Rosch E, Mervis CB. Family Resemblances: studies in the internal structure of categories. In: Geirsson H, Losonsky M, editors. Reading in language and mind. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers Inc.; 1996. p. 442–460.
  30. Admoni VG. Grammaticheskiy stroy kak sistema postroyeniya i obshchaya teoriya grammatiki [Grammatical structure as a sys¬tem of construction and general theory of grammar]. Leningrad: Nauka; 1988. 238 p. Russian.
  31. Bondarko AV. Printsipy funktsional’noi grammatiki i voprosy aspektologii [Principles of functional grammar and issues of aspectology]. Yartseva VN, editor. Moscow: Editorial URSS; 2001. 208 p. Russian.
  32. Vsevolodova MV. Teoriya funktsional’no-kommunikativnogo sintaksisa. Fragment fundamental’noi prikladnoi (pedagogicheskoi) modeli yazyka [Theory of functional-communicative syntax. A fragment of the fundamental applied (pedagogical) language model]. Moscow: Editorial URSS; 2017. 656 p. Russian.
  33. Giiom G. Printsipy teoreticheskoi lingvistiki [Principles of theoretical linguistics]. Skrelina LM, editor. Moscow: Progress; 1992. 224 p. Russian.
  34. Lakoff G, Johnson M. Metaphors we live by. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; 1980. 193 p. Russian edition: Lakoff J, Johnson M. Metafory, kotorymi my zhivem. Baranov AN, Morozova AV, translators; Baranov AN, editor. Moscow: Editorial URSS; 2004. 256 p.
  35. Tarasova LD. [Linguistic status of causation]. Filologicheskie nauki. 1998;1:50–55. Russian.
  36. Martine A. Osnovy obshchei lingvistiki [Fundamentals of general linguistics]. Shevoroshkin VV, translator; Zvegintsev VA, editor. Moscow: Editorial URSS; 2004. 224 p. Russian.
  37. Martine A. Printsip ekonomii v foneticheskikh izmeneniyakh (problemy diakhronicheskoi fonologii) [The principle of economy in phonetic changes (problems of diachronic phonology)]. Zaliznyak AA, translator; Zvegintsev VA, editor. Moscow: Izdatel’stvo ino¬strannoi literatury; 1960. 262 p. Russian.
  38. Stanovaïa LA. Addressing the principle of linguistic economy again. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. 2016;2(4):50–75. Russian. DOI: 10.22250/2410-7190_2016_2_4_50_75.
  39. Buridant Cl. Grammaire nouvelle de l’ancien français. Paris: Sedes; 2000. 800 р.
  40. Auvseichyk YuV. Polyfunctionality of the lexeme or in Old and Middle French. Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional Univer¬sity. Series: Linguistics. 2022;1:64–75. Russian.
  41. Zipf GK. Selected studies of relative frequency in language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; 1932. 52 p.
  42. Zipf GK. The psycho-biology of language: an introduction to dynamic philology. Cambridge: The MIT Press; 1968. 336 p.
  43. Balashov EA, Baranov AN, Dobrovol’skii DO, Kiseleva KL, Kozerenko AD, Korobova MM, et al. Korpusnaya model’ idios¬tilya Dostoevskogo [Case model of Dostoevsky’s idiostyle]. Baranov AN, Dobrovol’skii DO, editors. Moscow: Leksrus; 2021. 358 p. Russian.
Published
2022-06-30
Keywords: coordinators, nuclear and peripheral items, system, system formation, use, diachrony, French language
How to Cite
Auseichyk Y. V. System organisation of French coordination items // Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology. 2022. 2. PP. 63-76.
Issue
No 2 (2022): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology
Section
Linguistics

Copyright (c) 2022 Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

The authors who are published in this journal agree to the following:

  1. The authors retain copyright on the work and provide the journal with the right of first publication of the work on condition of license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial. 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
  2. The authors retain the right to enter into certain contractual agreements relating to the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (e.g. post it on the institutional repository, publication in the book), with the reference to its original publication in this journal.
  3. The authors have the right to post their work on the Internet (e.g. on the institutional store or personal website) prior to and during the review process, conducted by the journal, as this may lead to a productive discussion and a large number of references to this work. (See The Effect of Open Access.)