Les unités prédicatives autonomes averbales: Approche syntaxique des phrases averbales en discours

This book takes a fresh look at sentences known as averbal, nominal or verbless. It explains in detail the specific nature of these structures and the various patterns that emerge from them. It is based on quantified analyses of a literary corpus of novels and plays and, to a lesser extent, of corpora from spontaneous speech and the press. Numerous tables summarize the data.