The Obligatory Use of The Preposition a Plus Disjunctive Pronoun After Certain Verbs in French

There are at least thirty-five verbs in Modern French which do not accept the conjunctive (indirect object) pronoun marked {+human} under certain circumstances. These include so-called verbs of motion, e.g., je vais a lui, verbs like penser, e.g., je pense a lui, and verbal expressions like faire attention, e.g., je fais attention a lui.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

French

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Dunbar, Richard Terry

• Language, Linguistics

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8203449

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/67931