Les pronoms démonstratifs neutres du français devant les subordonnées de type relatif
French neutral demonstrative pronouns before relative-type subordinate clauses

Summary/Abstract: This work deals with the construction of relatives and cleft clauses that follow a demonstrative pronounin French. It examines their mode of acquisition of meaning and reference, either by referentialincrease obtained by predicative interactions and lexical meaning, or by the process of focusingon a referent in the situation or context. We show that the original pronoun ce is no longer demonstrativein all these structures, and how the various demonstratives are used in actual French inthose contexts.

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