Reviewed Publication:
Michel Achard. Impersonals and Other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2015, 372+ix pp., ISBN: 9789027269072. Hardback and E-book 99.00 EUR/149.00 USD.
Funding source: National Social Science Foundation of Chin
Award Identifier / Grant number: 14BYY004
Funding statement: This review is supported by National Social Science Foundation of China (14BYY004).
Acknowledgements
Our appreciation goes to the author Michel Achard for his quick email reply to our questions on his illustration of the event/proposition distinction and basic/elaborated reality, as well as the particular usage of ça in the monograph. We would also like to express our sincere thanks to Dr. Amanda Patten for her valuable comments and revisions.
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