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5 janvier 2020
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- Labelle, Marie (2020). « The French intensifier auto ». Prépublication. (Montréal, UQAM). 25 p.
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This paper studies the contribution of the verbal prefix auto to the interpretation of the clause in French. It is proposed that auto is an intensifier stating that, perhaps contrary to expectations, no agent other than the one specified in the clause (agent-focusing), or, in anticausative clauses, no external agent (agent-denying), is responsible for the event. Auto modifies a verbal projection (vP or VP), and the nature of the constituent to which it attaches determines and constrains the interpretation of the clause.