프랑스어 비인칭 주어 형용사와 명사절의 의미 분석

Abstract

There are French adjectives that can form impersonal constructions. We call them ‘impersonal subject adjectives’. We looked at the theoretical explanations of cognitive linguistics on phenomena related to impersonal constructions. Based on these explanations, the meaning of impersonal subject adjective constructions was analyzed. Interesting analysis results can be summarized as follows. First, the meaning difference between the impersonal and the non-extraposed constructions is very subtle. Howerver, it appears clearly in specific situations. Second, the main difference between infinitival and finite complements is that infinitival complements include no person, tense, or mood predications. Third, a proposition needs to have a putative address in reality, and therefore include tense predications, which provide that address. Only indicative complements can perform that function, because they alone contain tense predications. Subjunctive complements, on the other hand, cannot be located with respect to elaborated reality. From these analyses, we can look at the relationship between the structure and meaning of language expressions from the point of view of cognitive linguistics. The meaning of a sentence is not taken to be a logical representation, but is rather an integrated conceptualization. A language tells us something about how it structures meanings. The goal of cognitive linguistics is to systematically investigate the kinds of scenes coded by the different constructions, reveal the specificity of the construal each of them provides, and show how that construal is reflected in its form.