Search results

Au travers de l'exemple du Récit Variable - genre littéraire crossmédia, interactif et coopératif - il est non seulement possible de vérifier le rôle cognitif de la perspective comme outil d'organisation de l'espace en vue du déplacement et de l'action mais également de définir les perspectives ubiquitaires, dynamiques et tournantes qui apparaissent avec les médias numériques. Ces perspectives s'intègrent dans un nouveau contrat de lecture dans lequel le lecteur accepte la responsabilité finale de la construction du sens.

Abstract
This paper investigates a set of five related constructions in Boro, called middle-like constructions, following Kemmer's (1993) semantic analytical framework of the middle voice. The paper presents a detailed analysis of these constructions, which include Spontaneous event constructions, Reciprocal and Collective constructions, Facilitative constructions, Reflexive-causative constructions, and Adversative constructions. These constructions share striking structural and functional features, including a morpheme za 'become, happen, take place', which is a verb in origin. The morpheme za 'become, happen, take place' can be characterized as a 'middle marker', which is used as a simple predicator in Spontaneous event constructions and as a serial verb in the other constructions. Functionally, these constructions express events in which there are either no construed agents or the agents are non-topical. Following Kemmer's semantic map approach, the event types are mapped onto the semantic transitivity continuum. What is notable in the semantic map of the Za constructions is that the area covered by Za constructions is not contiguous, which we would expect following principles like the Semantic Map Connectivity Hypothesis (Croft 2001: 96) and Semantic Map Continuity (Boye 2010).