Submitted by Fabiano Vassallo (fabianovassallo2127@gmail.com) on 2017-04-18T17:46:28Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertação - Elaine Pereira da Silva.pdf: 1557305 bytes, checksum: 8b98dddc48ad54e68f6d06f6d83072f0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Geisa Drumond (gmdrumond@vm.uff.br) on 2017-04-19T16:32:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertação - Elaine Pereira da Silva.pdf: 1557305 bytes, checksum: 8b98dddc48ad54e68f6d06f6d83072f0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-19T16:32:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertação - Elaine Pereira da Silva.pdf: 1557305 bytes, checksum: 8b98dddc48ad54e68f6d06f6d83072f0 (MD5) / Nesta pesquisa, analisamos usos da palavra tipo, com ênfase no estudo de sua função anguladora, sob a perspectiva teórica da Linguística Cognitiva em Lakoff (1987) e, mais especificamente, da Teoria dos Espaços Mentais proposta por Fauconnier (1994, 1997) e Fauconnier & Turner (2002). Também nos valemos de contribuições da Linguística Textual na análise e explanação do fenômeno investigado. Em primeiro lugar, objetivamos verificar a importância do estudo de tipo angulador, no português do Brasil (PB) dos dias atuais; e, em segundo lugar, procurar por motivações pragmáticas, no contexto da comunicação online, que pudessem influenciar na ocorrência deste angulador, uso inovador e característico da modalidade oral da língua, em contextos mais formais, como em portais de notícias. Para isso, coletamos 100 ocorrências de usos de tipo em blogs, sites e portais de notícias da internet, usando a ferramenta Google, em casos que tipo não funcionasse como substantivo e nem com a presença da preposição de. A análise foi realizada em duas partes. Na primeira, voltada para aspectos sintáticos e semânticos, pudemos constatar a presença de 40 casos de tipo como angulador. Na segunda, levamos em conta aspectos pragmáticos e discursivos diversos que contribuíram para a explicação dos casos em análise. Como resultado, concluímos que o angulador tipo exerce o importante papel de veicular ponto de vista através da promoção de ricos processos cognitivos, como a mesclagem conceptual e a analogia. Além disso, verificamos que a presença deste angulador sobressai em contextos informais, já que a maioria dos casos em contextos mais formais se deu em forma de falas reportadas. A importância deste trabalho está na contribuição para os estudos dos anguladores e da descrição do PB, além de dar destaque para o contexto da comunicação virtual, considerado propício para o surgimento e disseminação de novos usos linguísticos / In this research, we analyzed usages of the word tipo, with emphasis on the study of its hedging function, under the assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics in Lakoff (1987) and, more specifically, The Mental Spaces Theory, proposed by Fauconnier (1994, 1997) and Fauconnier & Turner (2002). We took into account contributions of Textual Linguistics, as well. Firstly, we aimed to verify the importance of the study of the hedge tipo, in Brazilian Portuguese of the current days; and, secondly, to search for pragmatic motivations, in the context of online communication, which could influence the occurrence of this hedge, considered an innovative usage and characteristic of the oral language, in more formal contexts, such as news websites. For this, we collected 100 occurrences of usages of tipo on blogs, websites and news websites, using Google, in cases that tipo neither is a noun nor is accompanied by the preposition de. The analysis was performed in two parts. Firstly, it was based on syntactic and semantic aspects, in which we observed the presence of 40 cases of tipo as a hedge. Secondly, we took into account some pragmatic and discursive aspects, which contributed for the explanation of the cases in analysis. As a result, we concluded that the hedge tipo plays an important role in conveying viewpoint, by promoting rich cognitive processes, such as conceptual blending and analogy. In addition, we found out that the presence of this hedge is more evident in informal contexts, since most of the cases in more formal contexts occurred in the form of reported speeches. The importance of this work is the contribution to the study of hedges and the description of the Brazilian Portuguese language. In addition, it emphasizes the context of virtual communication, which is an opportune place for the emergence and dissemination of new linguistic usages

Orientador: Maria Fausta Cajahyba Pereira de Castro / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T02:57:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kleppa_Lou-Ann_M.pdf: 823724 bytes, checksum: c0519416e5780a1fc35c504e4a6f76a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Para a realização desta pesquisa foram escolhidas preposições relacionadas a verbos na fala de uma criança brasileira, cujos dados são de caráter longitudinal. A observação do funcionamento da preposição conduziu este estudo à noção de gramaticalização, e, aplicando a Hipótese da Gramaticalização foi possível estabelecer diferentes graus de gramaticalização para as preposições recortadas para este estudo; o que se considera uma maneira alternativa de abordar o estatuto categorial da preposição. Um instrumento importante para a análise dos dados selecionados é a noção de transitividade. Através desta noção ¿ que pode ser entendida como uma propriedade sintática inerente ao verbo que se atualiza apenas no uso ¿ chegou-se às noções de valência e regência. Através da noção semântica de valência (número de argumentos do verbo) é possível identificar a posição da preposição na estrutura argumental do verbo (Borba 1996). A noção de regência foi aplicada para se identificar o elemento que seleciona a preposição: o verbo abre um espaço sintático para uma preposição na sentença, mas qual preposição, dentre tantas possíveis, é selecionada, não é necessariamente determinado pelo verbo. Percebeu-se que a heterogeneidade da fala da criança está relacionada ¿ dentre muitos outros fenômenos observáveis na fala da criança ¿ à ausência, troca e excesso de preposições. Esta heterogeneidade não se dá num período de tempo delimitável da vida da criança. As mudanças observadas graças ao caráter longitudinal naturalístico dos dados que ocorreram na fala da criança, de um pólo heterogêneo em relação à língua constituída para o pólo próximo da fala do adulto, são tanto mudanças da linguagem da criança, como mudanças de posição da criança em relação à linguagem (De Lemos, 1992, 2000, 2001, 2002) / Abstract: Prepositions linked to verbs in the speech of a brazilian child, whose data were collected when it was between 1;02.11 and 4;10.06 years old, were chosen as the object of this dissertation. The observation of the functioning of prepositions linked to verbs has conducted this study to issues concerning the categorial status of prepositions, (are they lexical or functional items?) which has led to the notion of grammaticalization. Different degrees of grammaticalization could be established. The image of a continuum seems to be more adequate than that of distinct categories to describe the categorial status of prepositions. Transitivity has proved to be an important tool to analyse the selected data and so issues of valency and government could be approached. Valency is understood as beeing the number of arguments of a verb. After visualizing the argumental structure of a verb, the position of prepositions in this structure could be defined (Borba 1996). The notion of government was helpful to determine which element selects the preposition linked to verbs. It can be posited that the verb opens a syntactic space for the preposition in a sentence. The semantic restrictions to the choice of a specific preposition are not necessarily performed by the verb. It has been noticed that the heterogeneity of child speech is related to ¿ among many other observable phenomena ¿ the absence, switch and excess of prepositions. This heterogeneity isn't manifested in a delimited period of time of the child's life. There are changes from a heterogeneous pole (in relation to adult language) to a pole that is similar to the adult language to be observed along the selected data. Also, changes in the relation of the child with the mother tongue (De Lemos 1992, 2000, 2001, 2002) are discussed in this dissertation / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestre em Linguística

This thesis investigates the grammatical constructions of be-and get-passives and their usage by Swedes writing in English. The investigation is based on findings from four different corpora, two of which were compiled for the purpose of this study. The first one, SWENC (the Swedish English Newspaper Corpus), contains texts from online newspapers and a corporate newsletter written by Swedes in English. The second, BESC (Blogs in English by Swedes Corpus), contains material collected from blogs written in English by Swedes. The results from these corpora are compared with results from the press sub-corpora of the native English Frown (American English) and F-LOB corpora (British English). The results show that Swedes writing in English use passive constructions to a similar extent as native English speakers do within the news genre. Furthermore, Swedes writing in English use significantly more be-passive constructions within the news genre than the more informal blog genre. Lastly, the study shows that Swedes writing in English use get-passives, and that they are considerably more common in the informal language used in blogs than the more formal language used in online newspapers.

In this corpus-based study, the two verb pairs arise and rise and awake and wake are investigated. The paper focuses on seven research questions that are related to the meanings of the verbs in question, the semantic specialisations of those verbs, and the semantic relation of the specific verb pair constituents. Furthermore, tendencies of language change are investigated, and an attempt is made to generalise over the influence of the prefix a- on those tendencies. The results of the quantitative and qualitative analysis show that the verbs awake and wake are more synonymous than the verbs arise and rise. It seems as if due to this difference, the two verbs arise and awake are subject to different processes of language change that take their development into different directions. The observations made about the characteristics of the prefix a- that is involved in the two verbs arise and awake are often ambiguous and inconclusive. Therefore, the influence of this prefix on the processes of language change needs to be analysed further by investigating more word pairs distinguished by the absence or presence of the prefix a-.

4 ABSTRACT This thesis provides a description of the incipient grammaticalization of like between the end of the Old English period and the beginning of the Middle English period. During the examined time period, like was gradually losing the attributes that defined its categorial status as an adjective and began to function as the head of a prepositional phrase. Since the process of grammaticalization is inherently gradual, both the adjectival and the prepositional like were found to coexist as a result of the process of layering. Therefore, 10 parameters were established to determine which instances of like were more adjective-like and which were more preposition- like. The empirical part is based on the analysis of the 371 instances of the OE variants of like found in The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE) and the 232 instances of the ME variants of like found in The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, second edition (PPCME2). The sample is examined from the morphological as well as the syntactic point of view. Compared to the YCOE corpus, the findings in the PPCME2 corpus revealed a more advanced stage of grammaticalization. While some of the changes are not specific to like and affected other adjectives as well (the loss of inflectional endings, the fixed...

Orientador: Maria Luiza Braga / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T00:47:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carvalho_CristinadosSantos_D.pdf: 1949611 bytes, checksum: 878738ebe19c4154ae4c1b804878fae3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: Na presente tese, investigo as sentenças complexas portuguesas com verbos causativos e perceptivos em que se dá encaixamento de cláusulas completivas. Restrinjo minha análise, no primeiro grupo semântico, aos verbos mandar, deixar e fazer e, no segundo, a ver, ouvir e sentir, pelo fato de esses seis verbos terem sido mais freqüentes na amostra. Como referencial teórico, utilizo-me dos pressupostos do funcionalismo lingüístico, principalmente daqueles seguidos pela vertente americana (cf. Givón, 1990, 1995; Hopper e Traugott, 1993, dentre outros) e dos contidos em Lehmann (1988). Fundamento-me nas noções de iconicidade, integração sintática e gramaticalização para descrever e comparar o comportamento sintático e semântico das sentenças encaixadas em verbos causativos e perceptivos. Abordo, numa perspectiva pancrônica, os usos dessas cláusulas na língua portuguesa, com o intuito de verificar, nesses usos, a atuação do princípio de uniformitarismo (Labov, 1995). Para tanto, examino dados de diferentes fases do português, a arcaica e a contemporânea, com ênfase no estágio atual dessa língua. A amostra sincrônica consta de dados da modalidade falada do português brasileiro do século XX. A amostra diacrônica é composta de textos escritos do português do século XV: A Crônica de D. Pedro e A Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha. Da perspectiva da metodologia adotada na pesquisa, utilizo os pressupostos metodológicos da Teoria da Variação Lingüística. Seguindo esses pressupostos, submeti os dados sincrônicos a um tratamento quantitativo através do programa de pacotes VARBRUL (mesmo sem estar operando com uma regra variável). Com base nas noções de iconicidade, integração sintática e gramaticalização, assumo como hipóteses principais desta tese as seguintes: (a) as cláusulas encaixadas em verbos causativos e perceptivos se distinguem não só por atributos semânticos mas também por atributos sintáticos e constituem diferentes níveis de integração sintática; (b) existem diferenças de níveis de integração sintática e gramaticalização entre os verbos de cada grupo semântico e entre as acepções de cada verbo. Visando à comprovação empírica dessas hipóteses, os graus de integração sintática e gramaticalização entre as completivas aqui analisadas e suas matrizes são medidos a partir de parâmetros sintáticos e semântico-pragmáticos. Neste trabalho, em relação a alguns desses parâmetros, os resultados quantitativos evidenciam que: (a) as sentenças encaixadas em verbos causativos e perceptivos exibem, no português brasileiro, um padrão distribucional divergente entre si e, portanto, remetem a distintos graus de integração sintática; (b) essas diferenças se explicam pela atuação do subprincípio da proximidade (Givón, 1990); (c) alguns usos dos verbos causativos e perceptivos representam diferentes estágios de gramaticalização; (d) nos grupos semânticos examinados, alguns verbos se destacam por possuírem mais usos integrados e/ou gramaticalizados / Abstract: In the present work I investigate Portuguese complex sentences which involve embedded clauses with causative and perception verbs. I examine causative verbs such as mandar ¿to order¿, deixar ¿to let¿ and fazer ¿to make¿ and perception verbs such as ver ¿to see¿, ouvir ¿to hear¿ and sentir ¿to feel¿, because they were the most frequent ones, of each semantic group, to appear in the sample. Some theoretical assumptions from the functionalist approach are used, mainly these ones adopted by Givón (1990, 1995), Hopper e Traugott (1993) and Lehmann (1988). The analysis is based on the notions of iconicity, syntactic integration and grammaticalization, since the aim is to confront the embedded clauses of causative and perception verbs as far as their syntactic and semantic properties are concerned. I also study the Portuguese usages of these clauses in a panchronic perspective to verify the action of the Uniformitarian Principle (Labov, 1995). Then, I examine data from two periods of Portuguese, the archaic and contemporary ones, emphasizing the latter. The synchronic sample consists of data of spoken Brazilian Portuguese from the XXth Century. The diachronic sample consists of written texts from the XVth Century: A Crônica de D. Pedro and A Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha. Adopting the methodological principles from the Theory of Linguistic Variation, I make a quantitative analysis of the synchronic data through the VARBRUL, a package of statistical programs (although I am not studying a variable rule). Based on the claims about iconicity, syntactic integration and grammaticalization, it is assumed that: (a) the embedded clauses of causative verbs differ, semantically and syntactically, from the sentential complements of perception verbs because they exhibit different levels of syntactic integration; (b) there are distinct degrees of syntactic integration and grammaticalization among the verbs of each semantic group and among the meanings of each verb. In order to check these hypotheses, the degrees of syntactic integration and grammaticalization between the sentential complements and their matrixes are measured based on syntactic and semantic-pragmatic parameters. As far as these parameters are concerned, the results show that: (a) the embedded clauses of causative and perception verbs exhibit different distributional patterns and, therefore, they display different degrees of syntactic integration; (b) these differences are explained by the Proximity Subprinciple (Givón, 1990); (c) some usages of causative and perception verbs represent distinct stages of grammaticalization; (d) in the semantic groups examined, some verbs have more integrated and grammaticalized usages than others / Doutorado / Doutor em Linguística

Данная работа посвящена прилагательным и наречиям с семантикой интенсивности – признаковым лексемам, выражающим высокую степень обозначаемого ими объекта. В фокусе исследования находятся прилагательные и наречия, выступающие в современном немецком языке в усилительной функции и исходная семантика которых имеет негативные коннотации, например furchtbar: Tier vs. nett ‘ужасный: животное vs. милый’, wahnsinnig: Patient vs. interessant ‘безумный: пациент vs. интересный’. В рамках диссертации проведен анализ данного языкового феномена и исследованы характерные для него ступени развития. В качестве доказательной базы приведены многочисленные примеры из словарей, немецкоязычных корпусов, баз данных и интернета. Основу исследования составляет немецкий материал, релевантность затронутой проблематики проверена и на материале русского языка. Исследуемые прилагательные и наречия были распределены в группы, объединенные исходной семантикой. Было установлено, что внутри выделенных групп происходят похожие семантические процессы, ведущие к образованию значения интенсивности. К этим процессам относится, в частности, обогащение исходного семантического наполнения лексемы и появление импликатуры, связанной со значением интенсивности. Усилительное значение возникает, как правило, в определенных контекстах: например, при дублировании семантики прилагательного / наречия и семантики слова-референта (например, ужасно испугаться) или при сочетании лексемы со словами-референтами, семантика которых также предполагает высокую степень выраженности того или иного признака (сражаться, кричать, реветь и т.д.). Как следствие, лексема появляется в многозначных контекстах, которые имеют двойную интерпретацию, то есть указывают на употребление как в исходном, так и значении интенсивности. После конвенционализации импликатуры исходная семантика постепенно уходит на задний план и стирается. В результате лексема теряет исходные негативные коннотации и может употребляться в положительных контекстах (например, ужасно рад).

This thesis investigates control infinitives and ECM-infinitives in the history of Swedish. Both constructions are non-finite, based on infinitives with or without complements, but share some properties and functions with finite subordinate clauses. Control infinitives (to-infinitives) are headed by the infinitive marker att (which in some cases may be omitted) and have invisible PRO-subjects (“controlled” by, i.e. co-referential with, the subject or object of the matrix), whereas ECM-infinitives are headed by overt subjects, distinguished by their “exceptional case marking” (ECM) from the matrix verb, and never contain the infinitive marker. According to the proposed analyses, conducted within the theoretical framework of generative grammar, control infinitives are CPs, taking the infinitive marker as a non-finite complementizer in C, but lack the TP of the I-domain, whereas ECM-infinitives have no C-layer but, nevertheless, a (sort of) TP. The historical investigation shows that control infinitives have developed more clause like properties over time. In Old Swedish (1220–1526), they only rarely contained e.g. negations or auxiliaries. It is not until the seventeenth century that these elements have come into use in the same way as in modern Swedish. This is accounted for by assuming that the control infinitive in Old Swedish was a recent innovation that did not initially make any use at all of the I-domain. The ECM-infinitives, on the other hand, are taken to have the same structure and function in Old Swedish as in Modern Swedish, as their use and properties have not changed significantly. In addition, the status of the infinitive marker has changed through the history of Swedish. Etymologically a preposition, it is here analysed as a verb phrase element in Early Old Swedish, not as a (non-finite) complementizer as in Modern Swedish. In early Modern Swedish (1526–1732), the preposition till is used in much the same function as att giving rise to two new infinitive markers: till att and till. This development of new infinitive markers is also accounted for in the thesis.

Cette thèse s'attache à décrire et à analyser les différents emplois de mono (chose, objet) en japonais contemporain. Comme le mot français chose, ce terme d’usage très courant a la particularité de ne pas avoir de signifié en propre mais de pouvoir tout aussi bien désigner un objet concret qu’un concept abstrait ou encore une classe d’individus partageant les mêmes traits. Nom « caméléon » aux propriétés référentielles singulières, mono est aussi fréquemment employé à des fins fonctionnelles, voire purement énonciatives.À travers des observations en discours, ce travail précise les contours de ces deux emplois référentiel et fonctionnel et explore la nature de la contribution sémantique de mono à la réalisation de tournures expressives plus ou moins figées.Sur le plan de la méthodologie, nous avons adopté une approche basée sur l’observation de données authentiques que nous avons analysées sous différents angles syntaxiques, sémantiques et énonciatifs. Pour cela nous avons constitué un corpus de travail réunissant des exemples extraits d’articles de journaux, de romans populaires, d’échanges sur internet ou de conversations informelles.Dans la première partie, nous avons cherché à identifier et à décrire les emplois « référentiels » au regard d’autres emplois essentiellement fonctionnels et, pour cela, nous avons exploré la notion de nom formel dont mono est considéré comme un des principaux représentants. Dans la deuxième partie, la tournure en « A-wa C MONO da » a plus particulièrement retenu notre attention pour sa fréquence et ses effets énonciatifs. Nous l’avons d’abord envisagée dans le cadre général de la phrase à prédicat nominal caractéristique du jugement catégorique. Une seconde approche a consisté à envisager « MONO DA » comme un opérateur modal venant surdéterminer une occurrence prédicative. Pour cette analyse, nous nous sommes appuyé sur les travaux de Nishiyama (1985), Kudo (1995, 2002), Teramura (1984, 1999) et Morita (1989).Dans une troisième partie, le point de vue de la modalité a permis de préciser la nature appréciative ou épistémique du jugement. Nous avons également analysé le fonctionnement de la modalité explicative propre aux écrits journalistiques et précisé l’emploi de mono du point de vue de sa contribution à la réalisation d’opérations argumentatives. L’approche pragmatique a enfin éclairé le processus conduisant à l’émergence de valeurs spécifiques dérivées de la valeur axiologique de l’expression d’une tendance générale.Ce travail se termine par une mise en perspective du point de vue de la grammaticalisation des différents emplois observés. / In this dissertation, we focus on the various uses of mono (thing, object) in contemporary Japanese. From a methodological point of view, we have adopted an approach based on the observation of authentic data which we have analyzed under several syntactical, semantic and enunciative criteria. Samples consist of various aspects of modern language (newspaper articles, contemporary novels, internet-based communication, informal conversation) collected from existing data sources, mainly from the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ) and the Nagoya University Japanese Conversation Corpus.We have first attempted to identify and describe referential readings compared to other more functionnal uses. For this purpose, we have investigated the concept of ‘formal noun’ (keishiki meishi) of which mono is seen as a prototype.The second part is dedicated to the form 'A-wa C-MONO da' that particularly caught our attention because of its frequency and its enunciative effects. A first approach concentrates on nominal uses realized within the framework of a nominal sentence (meishi jutsugo bun). In this part, we propose a brief summary of research on nominal predication and present the different meanings of the sentences built around the bare noun mono. In a second approach, we consider it from the point of view of nominalization, where mono da can be seen as a purely enunciative operator. For this analysis, we have developped a theorical model based on Nishiyama (1985), Kudo (1995, 2002), Teramura (1984, 1999) and Morita (1989).In the third part, reference to the notion of modality has allowed us to specify the appreciative or epistemic nature of the judgment. We have also analyzed the function of mono as a discourse connector in journalist papers and shown its contribution to argumentative operations. The pragmatic approach highlights the process that drives the emergence of specific values derived from its underlying meaning of 'general tendency.' This work ends with an attempt to put the various uses of mono in perspective from the point of view of grammaticalization.

La concession est une relation logique « secondaire » complexe qui se nourrit de plusieurs notions de base : l’hypothèse, la temporalité, la causalité, la négation, l’intensité, la subjectivité, etc. En reliant toutes ces notions, nous traitons les quatre locutions concessives les plus utilisées ainsi que leurs homologues dérivés de la même série en chinois : ji shi « bien que » « même si », sui ran « bien que » « malgré » (et zong ran « bien que » « même si »), na pa « bien que » « même si », jiu shi « même si » (et jiu suan « bien que » « même si »). L’objectif de notre travail est d’explorer le mécanisme concessif dans ces deux langues typologiquement distantes et différentes. En nous inscrivant en principe dans la même ligne que A. Meillet (1912), R. Martin (1982 et 1987) et O. Soutet (1987, 1990 et 1992), etc., nos recherches démontrent non seulement l’évolution diachronique de ce marqueur concessif étudié, mais mettent également en évidence ses rapprochements avec certains connecteurs analogues français (tels que cependant, alors, si, ja, nonobstant, etc.) pendant leur processus de grammaticalisation d’une manière à la fois sémantico-logique et syntaxico-discursive. Notre étude comprend divers corpus allant du chinois archaïque au chinois moderne, ainsi que des méthodologies linguistiques pour classer et traduire les exemples choisis. Nous constatons une ressemblance frappante entre la combinaison des notions de base au cours de la formation du mécanisme concessif dans les deux langues étudiées. / The concession is a “secondary” or “composed” linguistic concept since it combines many fundamental linguistic notions: hypothesis, temporality, causality, negation, intensity, subjectivity, etc. By relating all these crucial notions, our research examines the four most used concessive markers as well as their homologues derived from the same series in Chinese: ji shi "although" "even if", sui ran "although" "despite" (and zong ran "although" "even if"), na pa "although" "even if", jiu shi "even if" (and jiu suan "although" "even if"), as well as their equivalents in French based on previous theories and analyses in the two languages. The aim of the work is to explore the concessive mechanism in these two languages that are typologically distant and different. In the same line as A. Meillet (1912), R. Martin (1982 and 1987) and O. Soutet (1987, 1990 and 1992), etc., our research not only demonstrates the historical evolution of the studied concessive markers, but also highlights its rapprochements with certain French concessive connectors (such as cependant, alors, bien, si, ja, nonobstant, etc.) during their grammaticalization processes from semantic-logical and syntactic-discursive points of view. Our study involves various corpuses from archaic to contemporary Chinese and French, as well as technical linguistic methodologies to categorize and translate the extracted examples. The results of our present research show surprising similarities in terms of the concessive evolution despite the enormous etymological and cultural divergences of the two studied languages.