UMR 7320 : Bases, Corpus, Langage

Richard Faure

MCF HDR - UCA

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I am an associate member of the lab. BCL. My main affiliation is Université de Tours. Please visit my personal page for further information.

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titre: Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity
auteur: Richard Faure, Simon-Pierre Valli, Arnaud Zucker
article: De Gruyter, 2022, ⟨10.1515/9783110736076⟩
annee_publi: 2022
resume: This collection of articles is an important milestone in the history of the study of time conceptions in Greek and Roman Antiquity. It spans from Homer to Neoplatonism. Conceptions of time are considered from different points of view and sources. Reflections on time were both central and various throughout the history of ancient philosophy. Time was a topic, but also material for poets, historians and doctors. Importantly, the contributions also explore implicit conceptions and how language influences our thought categories.
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titre: Wh-interrogatives in ancient Greek
auteur: Nicolas Bertrand, Richard Faure
article: Studia Linguistica, 2022, 76 (3), pp.735-771. ⟨10.1111/stul.12194⟩
annee_publi: 2022
resume: This article explores the problem of information structure in ancient Greek direct constituent questions from the perspective of wh-placement. It begins with the observation that wh-items are intrinsically focused and that typologically, wh-placement is predictable based on the focusing properties in some languages, such as Indonesian (in situ strategy) and Basque or Hungarian (focus position strategy), but not in others, such as English (specific wh-position strategy). Ancient Greek has multiple ways to express narrow focusing, e.g., in situ or in a preverbal devoted position. Puzzlingly, with respect to whPs, the former way is only marginally attested and there is no good evidence for the latter way. Instead, based on syntactic and prosodic tests, we show that ancient Greek offers a third strategy, in which a high position in the structure is available. Nevertheless, when this result is recast in the framework of Phase Theory, the tests of wh-duplication and stranding indicate that whPs must go through all three positions, receiving their argument function in situ, checking their focus feature preverbally and verifying their wh-feature in the high position. The specificity of 'why' questions is addressed along the way.
typdoc: Journal articles
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titre: The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Clauses in Classical Greek: Relatives, Interrogatives, Exclamatives
auteur: Richard Faure
article: Brill, 2021
annee_publi: 2021
resume: Adapting tools recently developed in general linguistics and dwelling on a solid corpus study, this book offers the first comprehensive view on Classical Greek wh-clauses since Monteil (1963) and scrutinizes how wh-items (ὅς, ὅστις, τίς) distribute across the different clause types. False ideas are discarded (e.g., there are no τίς relative clauses, ὅστις does not take over ὅς’ functions). This essay furthermore teases apart actual neutralization and so-far-unknown subtle distinctions. Who knew that ὅστις is featured in three different types of appositive clauses? In the interrogative domain, an analysis is given of what licenses ὅς to pop in and τίς to pop out. Tackling these topics and more, this essay draws a coherent picture of the wh-clause system, whose basis is the notion of (non)identification.
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titre: L’exclamation en grec ancien
auteur: Michèle Biraud, Camille Denizot, Richard Faure
article: Peeters, 2021, L’exclamation en grec ancien, 978-90-429-4635-4
annee_publi: 2021
resume: Cet ouvrage est la première étude d’ensemble de l’exclamation en grec ancien. À partir d’un relevé très précis dans un corpus dialogué (théâtral et philosophique), il passe au crible une série d’énoncés expressifs en prenant en compte de multiples facteurs (interjections, particules, syntaxe elliptique ou atypique, cohésion textuelle) pour ciseler les contours d’un phénomène trop souvent élargi à tout énoncé expressif, en se fondant sur des critères unifiés : l’évidence d’un contenu s’impose au locuteur qui en même temps s’en distancie par l’acte d’exclamation. Focalisation et haut degré y jouent un rôle primordial. Des structures jusqu’à présent non-identifiées sont mises en évidence. Cette étude intéressera autant les linguistes généralistes que les hellénistes. Les concepts de linguistique générale mettent en lumière certains phénomènes du grec. Ils sont en retour mis à l’épreuve des données de cette langue et réévalués.
typdoc: Books
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titre: Exclusivity! Wh-fronting is not optional wh-movement in Colloquial French
auteur: Richard Faure, Katerina Palasis
article: Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2021, 39 (1), pp.57-95. ⟨10.1007/s11049-020-09476-w⟩
annee_publi: 2021
resume: This article revisits the long-standing issue of the alternation between wh in-situ and wh-ex-situ questions in French in the light of diglossia and cross-linguistic data. A careful preliminary examination of the numerous wh-structures in Metropolitan French leads us to focus on Colloquial French, which undoubtedly displays both wh-in-situ and wh-ex-situ questions.Within this dataset, wh-ex-situ questions without the est-ce que ‘is it that’ marker are more permissive than in-situ regarding weakislandhood and superiority. In a Relativized Minimality framework, we suggest that wh-ex-situ items bear an additional feature, which permits them to bypass these constraints. Colloquial French is thus a wh-in-situ language that allows for wh-ex-situ under specific conditions, like other wh-in-situ languages. Hence we argue against free variation and claim that wh-fronting is not driven by a wh-feature, but by another feature. Exploring the contexts where wh-ex-situ is licensed, we highlight a type of non-exhaustive contrast specific to questions, namely Exclusivity, and provide a formalization. The article therefore also contributes to the larger debate on information structure in questions.
typdoc: Journal articles
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titre: Comment les Grecs de l'Antiquité concevaient-ils le temps ?
auteur: Corinne Nicolas-Cabane, Véronique Kremmer, Richard Faure
article: ANR MIDISHUC, Mar 2020, Nice, France
annee_publi: 2020
resume: Cette exposition transdisciplinaire a été réalisée dans le cadre d'une action de médiation scientifique grand public sur la thématique du temps et de sa perception à l'époque antique en Grèce au Vème et IVème siècle avant notre ère. Elle combine des approches linguistique, philosophique, historique, physique et médicale.
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titre: Quand la dialectologie, la diachronie et l'acquisition se parlent : Étude comparative des pronoms sujets en occitan et en français
auteur: Michèle Oliviéri, Georg A. Kaiser, Katerina Palasis, Michael Zimmermann, Richard Faure
article: J. Sibille. La microvariation linguistique dans les langues romanes de France : Actes du colloque Symila, Toulouse, 11 et 12 juin 2015, Lambert Lucas, pp.81-98, 2020
annee_publi: 2020
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titre: Relatives et interrogatives en arménien classique et dans le grec des Évangiles. Un cas d’interpénétration syntaxique
auteur: Richard Faure
article: Claire Le Feuvre; Daniel Petit. Ὀνομάτων ἵστωρ: Mélanges offerts à Charles de Lamberterie, Louvain-la-Neuve, pp.45-60, 2020
annee_publi: 2020
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titre: Time and its categories in Classical Greek: Language and thought
auteur: Richard Faure, Emmanuel Golfin, Elsa Grasso
article: Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Science, 2019, The Time Era, ⟨10.18713/JIMIS-010719-7-11⟩
annee_publi: 2019
resume: The conceptions of time are manifold (cyclic, linear, subjective/objective etc.). This is also true of Ancient Greece (Lloyd 1976). However, in Classical Greece certain human sciences arise and evolve at the same time, including History (Herodotus, Thucydides) and Philosophy (Plato, Aristotle), which may share a common notion of time. We explore the idea that these developments are related to what we observe in the language in the same period, namely that the marking of aspect and mood steps back and gives way to a more precise marking of time in the verbal system. This may be due to mutual influences of the categories of language and thought, as already observed in Benveniste (1958).
typdoc: Journal articles
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titre: Explaining variation in wh-position in child French: A statistical analysis of new seminaturalistic data
auteur: Katerina Palasis, Richard Faure, Frédéric Lavigne
article: Language Acquisition, 2019, 26 (2), pp.210-234. ⟨10.1080/10489223.2018.1513004⟩
annee_publi: 2019
resume: The two possible positions for wh-words (i.e., in situ or preposed) represent a long-standing area of research in French. The present study reports on statistical analyses of a new seminaturalistic corpus of child L1 French. The distribution of the wh-words is examined in relation to a new verb tripartition: Free be forms, the Fixed be form c’est ‘it is’, and Other Verbs. Results indicate that a discriminating variable is verb form (i.e., Free vs. Fixed), regardless of verb type (i.e., be vs. Other Verbs), and that there is a correlation between the wh-in-situ position and the Fixed be form. The Fixed be form is thus identified as the component that leads to wh-in-situ utterances, in contrast to other languages such as English. Overuse of the Fixed be form in child speech could also account for the predominance of wh-in-situ in child object questions compared to adjunct questions and child wh-questions in general compared to adult questions
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