1999
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Gaston Gross, « Sémantique lexicale et connecteurs », Langages, ID : 10.3406/lgge.1999.2213
The goal of this article is to propose a model of semantic description of connectives (here of causal connectives). For a given connective, we proceed first by giving factorization of the morphological forms, thus avoiding redundancy in the description and putting forward equivalencies. A connective is considered to be a predicate, defined by the semantic nature of its arguments which are represented by the predicates of the main and subordinate clauses. We are thus in a position to enumerate the connectives that have the same arguments from a semantic point of view