IS,HIC,ILLE,ISTE coereferential with a complement clause
IS, HIC, ILLE, ISTE coréférentiels d'une proposition complétive. Etude distributionnelle
Résumé
When coreferential with a substantive clause, these pronouns are mostly used as cataphorics. For emphasis, they tend to move to the front of the sentence. ISTE, as a mainly interactive pronoun, predominantly occurs in comedies. ILLE, by far the most cataphorically used of the four variants, is but rarely associated with ERGO, IGITUR, NAM, ENIM, connectors that point to a previous context. Rather emphatic, ILLE characterizes a formal and artificial style (didactic discourse). Less marked than the other diaphorics, IS thus appears to be the most versatile of all. Striking features of IS are its rather common anaphoric use and its quasi-mechanical co-occurrence with AGO. Numerically predominant, HIC is not excluded from any domain of IS, ILLE, ISTE. But unlike ILLE and ISTE, it often implicates the speaker's commitment to the propositional content. In spite of an obvious proneness for immediacy, HIC occurs as frequently as IS in past narrative.
Domaines
Linguistique
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