Les noms de parties du corps et la possession inaliénable : le cas des constructions datives

TitreLes noms de parties du corps et la possession inaliénable : le cas des constructions datives
Publication TypeArticle de revue
Année de publication2015
AuthorsSimatos, Isabelle
JournalLangue Française
Volume185
Start Page127
Pagination140
Date de publication03/2015
Abstract

This paper analyzes nouns that can enter into an external possessor construction in French such as ça lui a soulagé la conscience. Among these nouns, there is a radical discrepancy between those which denote an essential property of human beings and those which do not. In the first case, the dative clitic is an obligatory antecedent for the predication of a possessive relation. With other nouns, the relation is not anaphoric.