Revue semestrielle de linguistique et littératures romanes

Écho des études romanes 2005, 1(2):5-21 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2005.025

Les converses de relation, les expressions symétriques et la flexionFrench

Miko³aj NKOLLO
Université Adam Mickiewicz de Poznañ

Converse relations, symmetric expressions and flexion

This paper surveys the morphological status of converse relations and of symmetric expressions. Thus far, they have received merely cursory descriptions underlining either solely their formal or solely their semantic properties. It is argued that, despite formal differences, these expressions do not alter the meaning of a sentence they give birth to. However, its functional structure (topic / comment partition) may be altered due to their use. From this point of view, converse relations resemble inflectional modifications (such as voice in verbal morphology, degree within adjectives, etc.) undergone by variable lexical items. Moreover, these expressions imply syntactic alternations (pertaining to word order) within sentence's structure. It might be concluded, then, that converse relations are instances of suppletive inflection within diathetic paradigm of a given language. As far as symmetric expressions are concerned, they may, on the same grounds, be described as instances of diathetic syncretism.

Keywords: converse relations; symmetric expressions; flexion

Published: December 11, 2005  Show citation

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