Expressing prospective location in French: rethinking Vandeloise's 'principle of anticipation'

Tutton, M

Expressing prospective location in French: rethinking Vandeloise's 'principle of anticipation'

Tutton, M

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Publisher:: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: JOURNAL OF FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDIES, 2022, 32, (1), pp. 48-75
Issue Date:: 2022-03-01

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dc.contributor.author	Tutton, M https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9273-8835
dc.date.accessioned	2023-01-30T03:51:49Z
dc.date.available	2023-01-30T03:51:49Z
dc.date.issued	2022-03-01
dc.identifier.citation	JOURNAL OF FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDIES, 2022, 32, (1), pp. 48-75
dc.identifier.issn	0959-2695
dc.identifier.issn	1474-0079
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/165584
dc.description.abstract	<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Vandeloise’s (1987, 2017) principle of anticipation proposes that French verbs of motion can enable prospective readings of static locative prepositions. However, it has little to say about verbs of motion that do <jats:italic>not</jats:italic> have a prospective verbal reference place (VRP): that is, to what extent are verbs of initial polarity like <jats:italic>partir</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>s’enfuir</jats:italic> able to trigger prospective readings of prepositions? This article argues that each verb must be analysed individually and that prospective readings of prepositions depend on the interaction of verbal and prepositional semantics: for example, the movement away from a viewer expressed by <jats:italic>partir</jats:italic> favours a prospective reading of <jats:italic>derrière</jats:italic> but not of <jats:italic>devant</jats:italic>: this is due to differences regarding access to perception. The animacy of the Ground and its status as a material or spatial entity (Vandeloise, 2017) is also a key factor (e.g. <jats:italic>partir près de</jats:italic> + spatial entity). This suggests that verbs of initial polarity participate in synergistic verb/preposition/Ground interpretations that help to overcome their lack of a VRP. The prospective reading of the preposition depends on the choice of verb and Ground, thus supporting a distributed view of spatial semantics (Sinha and Kuteva, 1995; Zlatev, 1997, 2003, 2007; Evans and Tyler, 2004).</jats:p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
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dc.subject	2003 Language Studies
dc.title	Expressing prospective location in French: rethinking Vandeloise's 'principle of anticipation'
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	32
utslib.for	2003 Language Studies
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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AbstractVandeloise’s (1987, 2017) principle of anticipation proposes that French verbs of motion can enable prospective readings of static locative prepositions. However, it has little to say about verbs of motion that do not have a prospective verbal reference place (VRP): that is, to what extent are verbs of initial polarity like partir and s’enfuir able to trigger prospective readings of prepositions? This article argues that each verb must be analysed individually and that prospective readings of prepositions depend on the interaction of verbal and prepositional semantics: for example, the movement away from a viewer expressed by partir favours a prospective reading of derrière but not of devant: this is due to differences regarding access to perception. The animacy of the Ground and its status as a material or spatial entity (Vandeloise, 2017) is also a key factor (e.g. partir près de + spatial entity). This suggests that verbs of initial polarity participate in synergistic verb/preposition/Ground interpretations that help to overcome their lack of a VRP. The prospective reading of the preposition depends on the choice of verb and Ground, thus supporting a distributed view of spatial semantics (Sinha and Kuteva, 1995; Zlatev, 1997, 2003, 2007; Evans and Tyler, 2004).

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