Pour une étude contrastive de seulement en français et en roumain
For a contrastive study of only in French and Romanian

Summary/Abstract: This contrastive study analyses the association and / or disassociation of various interpretations concerning the adverb only in order to debrief the ambiguities of a language and / or another and to explain the similarities and dissimilarities between French and Romanian. In fact, this research does not aim at pointing the functional heterogeneity of this adverb but especially its polyfunctionality responsible for its polysemy. Several elements of syntactic-semantic, pragmatic-discursive and enunciative nature (quantification, restriction, exclusivity, opposition, focalisation) point the interpretation of this adverb and specify preferentially or compulsorily the correct choice of its heteronyms. Having presented the limits of an analysis exclusively driven towards syntactic and semantic meanings of the adverb only, the article deals with the various uses of this adverb with a view to unifying its processing starting from the idea that a finite interpretation within the framework of the complex sentence cannot be dissociated from the interpretation within the framework of the utterance in an approach structured between discursive activity and language system.

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