What do the characters in novels do while speaking? (dit-il en souriant) A typology of the gerund constructions accompanying verba dicendi introducing direct speech

Abstrakt

The aim of this paper is to analyze the semantic properties of the French gerund constructions accompanying verba dicendi in direct speech in novels (based on the material taken from FRANTEXT corpus).

Klíčová slova

• gerund
• reporting verbs
• FRANTEXT
• novels