Grammaires et grammaticalite. (pages critiques de syntaxe espagnole)
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Abstract EN:
As the criterion for grammatical acceptability always seems to go along with the grammatical norm from which it proceeds (and to which any speech-utterance is obviously supposed to be subordinated), we inted to show, through a critical analysis of some aspects of spanish syntax as it has been introduced and studied in the best-known and most often used grammar-books both in france and spain for half-a-century, not only how many grammar-rules, which have been put forward by their respective authors on the basis of their own language-acceptabilities, are self-contradictory (within each separate book) but how all these normative grammars themselves differ from the actual language-system at work in many accepted speech-occurences. In other words and despite the well-established fact that any language tends to elude the limits that one should like to impose upon it, the blatant diversity of points of view among grammarians makes one wonder if erasmus was not right when he mentioned that "there are as many grammars as grammarians".
Abstract FR:
Puisque le critere de grammaticalite semble universellement aller de pair avec la norme grammaticale qui pretend l'instituer, norme a laquelle la langue paraitrait devoir etre infeodee dans toute production de discours, nous voulons montrer, en analysant certains aspects de la syntaxe espagnole dans les manuels les plus representatifs de la production grammaticale depuis un demi-siecle, particulierement en france, mais aussi en espagne, comment beaucoup de regles sur lesquelles repose la norme du "bon usage" que chaque grammairien etablit, se revelent non seulement contradictoires entre elles, selon le manuel etudie, mais aussi et surtout comment la grammaire de la langue et les grammaires normatives ne coincident pas dans l'acceptabilite de nombreux enonces, au point que, sans tenir compte du fait majeur que la langue se joue tres souvent des ornieres que l'on voudrait lui imposer -puisque a l'evidence la langue et la norme ne suivent pas necessairement le meme destin-, il convient de se demander si erasme n'avait pas raison, qui disait: "il y a autant de grammaires que de grammairiens".