Ce travail a pour objectif de degager les proprietes lexico-syntaxiques et semantiques du passif dit periphrastique en francais moderne et de correler le decodage strictement linguistique a une elaboration pragmatique. L'auteur traite de la passivation comme une operation lexicale qui manipule la structure argumentale du verbe de base.

"Challenging Clitics" deals with multiple sides of cliticisation from different theoretical frameworks and with data from a number of different languages. Unlike many other books on clitics where clitics are considered from a mere syntactical point of view, this book also discusses the acquisition of clitics; the role of the PF in cliticisation; the morphophonological aspects of cliticisation; and historical change to name but a few of the approaches presented. As such this collection presents cutting edge theoretical considerations as well as new data on clitics. Taken together, the...