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La Substantivation Des Adjectifs En Anglais Contemporain Chris A La substantivation des adjectifs en anglais contemporain Chris A. Smith To cite this version: Chris A. Smith. La substantivation des adjectifs en anglais contemporain. Sciences de l’Homme et Société. Université Paris 4 Paris-Sorbonne, 2005. Français. tel-02144423 HAL Id: tel-02144423 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02144423 Submitted on 30 May 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. UNIVERSITÉ PARIS IV - SORBONNE ÉCOLE DOCTORALE : CONCEPTS ET LANGAGE N° attribué par la bibliothèque |__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__| THÈSE: VOLUME 1 pour obtenir le grade de DOCTEUR DE L’UNIVERSITÉ PARIS IV Discipline : Sciences du Langage présentée et soutenue publiquement par Christine Anne SMITH le 3 décembre 2005 La substantivation des adjectifs en anglais contemporain Directeur de thèse : Monsieur le Professeur Pierre COTTE JURY – Messieurs les Professeurs Pierre BUSUTTIL Pierre COTTE Claude DELMAS. Nigel QUAYLE UNIVERSITÉ PARIS IV - SORBONNE ÉCOLE DOCTORALE : CONCEPTS ET LANGAGE N° attribué par la bibliothèque |__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__| THÈSE: VOLUME 1 pour obtenir le grade de DOCTEUR DE L’UNIVERSITÉ PARIS IV Discipline : Sciences du Langage présentée et soutenue publiquement par Christine Anne SMITH le 3 décembre 2005 La substantivation des adjectifs en anglais contemporain Directeur de thèse : Monsieur le Professeur Pierre COTTE JURY – Messieurs les Professeurs Pierre BUSUTTIL Pierre COTTE Claude DELMAS. Nigel QUAYLE 1 2 REMERCIEMENTS La liste est très longue de tous ceux qui m'ont aidée d'une manière ou d'une autre dans l'accomplissement de ce travail de recherche. Sans vouloir retracer tout mon parcours, ni citer nommément et exhaustivement chacun, je voudrais remercier chaleureusement tous mes collègues de Paris III et Paris IV pour leur soutien moral, leur écoute et leurs conseils à la fois pédagogiques et stratégiques. Je tiens à remercier avant tout les nombreux autres ATER et PRAG qui mènent leur recherche tout en assurant un service d'enseignement non négligeable, qui ont été mes compagnons de parcours pendant ses nombreuses années. Ils se reconnaîtront. Je n'oublie pas non plus tous ceux qui ont écouté mes plaintes et remises en question récurrentes, et garde un bon souvenir de nos "moaning sessions" réconfortantes et salutaires dans la salle des professeurs de Paris IV entre des séances marathon d'enseignement. Je remercie en particulier Hélène Josse pour son esprit de synthèse et ses commentaires judicieux, Anne-Marie Roussel qui m'a guidée pendant mes années de normalienne et bien après, Frédérique Passot qui a eu la gentillesse de faire quelques relectures, ainsi que mes deux frères, qui m'ont écoutée et conseillée dans ma recherche sur les substantivés. Ma vocation de linguiste est d'ailleurs due à une rencontre inoubliable, celle de mon directeur de thèse, Pierre Cotte. Sans lui, ce travail n'aurait jamais vu le jour. Je le remercie pour son soutien silencieux, sa confiance inébranlable, et surtout sa patience pendant des années de doutes et de remises en question perpétuels. Je le remercie aussi pour ses conseils et la grande liberté de pensée qui est la sienne. Enfin, à titre personnel, je tiens à remercier mes parents, qui m'ont donné la grande chance d'avoir deux langues maternelles, et d'évoluer dans un milieu linguistique multiculturel. Je les remercie aussi pour leur soutien moral, de m'avoir toujours offert un sanctuaire où une grande partie de la rédaction a pu avoir lieu. Enfin, je remercie de tout cœur mon entourage et mes amis, qui, sans être universitaires ou chercheurs, ont su me rappeler que dans la vie, il n'y a pas que la recherche. 3 4 SOMMAIRE Sommaire ....................................................................................................................5 Introduction générale .................................................................................................9 PREMIÈRE PARTIE : LA SUBSTANTIVATION DES ADJECTIFS ENTRE GRAMMAIRE ET LEXIQUE .................................................................................19 Chapitre 1 : La substantivation et la transcatégorialité .......................................... 23 1 La notion de transfert catégoriel ...................................................................... 24 2 La conversion en anglais contemporain : les faits............................................ 47 Chapitre 2 : Historique du traitement des catégories.............................................. 69 1 Origines ontologique et logique des Parties Du Discours ................................ 70 2 Jespersen 1914................................................................................................... 82 3 Poutsma et les adjectifs substantivés (1929)..................................................... 91 4 Guillaume .......................................................................................................... 93 5 Hewson (1972) ................................................................................................. 100 6 Wierzbicka (1988) ........................................................................................... 102 7 Goes et les AS en français (1999) .................................................................... 110 8 Huddleston et Pullum (2002) .......................................................................... 116 5 9 Corblin et Laborde (2001) : traitement du groupe nominal sans nom.......... 123 Chapitre 3 : Le pari d'un traitement global des SN contenant un adjectif comme tête apparente.......................................................................................................... 127 1 L'importance des critères morphosyntaxiques .............................................. 129 2 Les critères sémantiques et discursifs............................................................. 135 3 Le projet d'analyse de corpus ......................................................................... 145 4 Le tableau de référence des AS : les apports de la diachronie à la synchronie 164 DEUXIÈME PARTIE : MORPHOSYNTAXE DES AS....................................... 181 Chapitre 4 : L'adjectif et son rôle dans le SN ........................................................ 185 1 L'adjectif modifieur et la nominalisation ....................................................... 187 2 Morphosyntaxe adjectivale............................................................................. 194 3 Les types sémantiques de prémodifieurs du substantif.................................. 199 Chapitre 5 : Description morphosyntaxique des AS dans le corpus ..................... 209 1 Observations sur la composition syntaxique du SN contenant [dét+ (mod) + ADJ] ........................................................................................................................ 211 2 Le rôle de la morphologie dérivationnelle...................................................... 262 3 Modèle de typologie syntaxique des AS et réintroduction de la sémantique 294 6 TROISIÈME PARTIE : SEMANTIQUE DES AS : DÉNOMINATION ET CATÉGORISATION.............................................................................................. 321 Chapitre 6 : Le nom et la catégorisation................................................................ 325 1 Désignation et dénomination........................................................................... 327 2 Les modes de signification du nom................................................................. 343 3 Catégories nominales et catégories ontologiques ........................................... 354 4 L'enjeu cognitif de la substantivation : le modèle cognitif............................. 373 Chapitre 7 : Les modes de restitution du sens réfèrentiel des AS ......................... 395 1 Prévisibilité : AS de type 1 et parcours des supports potentiels .................... 397 2 Non prévisibilité : AS de type 2, rapport entre supports référentiels du substantivé et sens adjectival.................................................................................. 413 Chapitre 8 : Polysémie, stabilité et continuité référentielle des AS infléchis ........ 443 1 La polysémie contextuelle des AS infléchis : les indices de continuité référentielle ............................................................................................................. 444 2 Typologie des AS pluralia tantum ................................................................... 478 QUATRIÈME PARTIE: TYPOLOGIE SÉMANTICO-RÉFÉRENTIELLE ET CHOIX DES AS EN DISCOURS........................................................................... 499 Chapitre 9 : Typologie des AS en fonction de leur catégorisation référentielle.... 505 1 Niveaux de dénomination et notion de taxonomie ......................................... 507 7 2 Les AS : catégories verticales ou transversales : reformulation ou construction de catégories nouvelles............................................................................................ 540 3 Les AS et les catégories préexistantes : hyponymie ......................................
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