chômeur (n.)

A term used in RELATIONAL GRAMMAR, derived from the French word meaning ‘unemployed’, to refer to a NOMINAL item which has its role in a CLAUSE taken over (or ‘usurped’) by another nominal; abbreviated as cho. For example, in a PASSIVE SENTENCE, the UNDERLYING SUBJECT is seen as having its subject FUNCTION usurped by the DIRECT OBJECT from the ACTIVE sentence; as a result, the subject of the active sentence becomes demoted into a chômeur. By seeing such STRUCTURES in terms of RULES which alter relations (rather than in terms of a TRANSFORMATION of one PHRASE-MARKER into another), it is hoped that a more UNIVERSAL formulation of such rules will be obtained.chômeur (n.) A term used in RELATIONAL GRAMMAR, derived from the French word meaning ‘unemployed’, to refer to a NOMINAL item which has its role in a CLAUSE taken over (or ‘usurped’) by another nominal; abbreviated as cho. For example, in a PASSIVE SENTENCE, the UNDERLYING SUBJECT is seen as having its subject FUNCTION usurped by the DIRECT OBJECT from the ACTIVE sentence; as a result, the subject of the active sentence becomes demoted into a chômeur. By seeing such STRUCTURES in terms of RULES which alter relations (rather than in terms of a TRANSFORMATION of one PHRASE-MARKER into another), it is hoped that a more UNIVERSAL formulation of such rules will be obtained.