C’est quoi, le truc ?

This paper presents a lexical and syntactic study of the polysemy of the noun truc ‘thing’ in French, which displays (at least) five different types of uses, some of which bring it close to unspecific and/or general nouns. The analysis is based on a large corpus of attested data and on a set of synt...

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Main Author: Estelle Moline
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO
Series:Corela
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/corela/13789