Margot Colinet

• Paris Diderot University

This paper presents the identification of discourse connectives in the “French Treebank” corpus (FTB) already annotated for morpho-syntax. This is the first step in the full discursive annotation of this corpus. The method consists in projecting on the corpus the items that are listed in LexConn, a lexicon of French connectives, and then filtering...

Cet article étudie les différents emplois de la préposition « pour » suivie d'une infinitive à partir d'un corpus. Ont été identifiées quatre grandes classes d'emploi : connecteur de discours, introducteur d'argument sous-catégorisé (régi), introducteur de relative sans mot QU et introducteur d'expression méta-discursive. Lorsque nécessaire, des c...

The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as wel...

This paper deals with the discursive effects of the use of emphatic Negative Polarity Items and Free Choice Items such as any. In this work, we show that the use of the emphatic any, be it an NPI or an FCI, has a direct effect on the introduction of subsequent discourse segments. Our theoretical observations are backed up by experimental results. T...