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Shell nouns as discourse deixis and metonymic markers: syntax-semantics interface

Issa Kanté

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Nouns such as analysis, approach, idea, philosophy, theory, etc. (which Schmid (2000), in a cognitive-functional approach, refers to as “conceptual shells”) constitute a closed lexical class that undergoes a strong lexico-syntactic constraint as in the following example: (1) Deeply ingrained in American culture is the philosophy [idea/theory/*linguistics/*study] that the ‘government that governs best, governs least’ (BYU-COCA). This paper proposes a syntax-semantics approach to examine meaning construction and communicative purposes of this construction (NP + (V) + that-clause).

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hal-01446899 , version 1 (26-01-2017)

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Issa Kanté. Shell nouns as discourse deixis and metonymic markers: syntax-semantics interface. Annalisa Baicchi; Erica Pinelli. Cognitive Modeling in Language and Discourse across Cultures, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.63-78, 2017, 978-1-4438-9127-1. ⟨hal-01446899⟩
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