L'analyse des formes Qui, que, lequel, etc. et la récusation du « pronom relatif » dans l'œuvre de Nicolas Beauzée
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2003
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Mireille Piot, « L'analyse des formes Qui, que, lequel, etc. et la récusation du « pronom relatif » dans l'œuvre de Nicolas Beauzée », Langue française, ID : 10.3406/lfr.2003.6495
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Mireille Piot, « The analysis of the forms Qui, que, lequel... and the rejection of the category of 'relative pronoun' in Nicolas Beauzée's works. » We present here Beauzée's theory of qu- (Wh-) words as it appears both in his major work (the Grammaire Générale) and in his contributions to the Encyclopédie and to the Encyclopédie Méthodique. Beauzée rejects the definition and classification of these particular words as relative pronouns put forward by his predecessors. He claims that by examining their use in French, Latin and other languages, these words are 'demonstrative conjunctive articles', and take their place as a sub-class of conjunctive words in syntax. In his theory of universal grammar and in his method of reconstructing the underlying structure of elliptical utterances, Beauzée builds on Sanctius (with his theory of ellipsis) and foreshadows transformational (Z.S. Harris) and generative grammar.