Abstract
This dissertation meets a gap in French linguistic studies, as far as the morpheme quand has never been described in a systematic way, contrary to other items of the qu- (wh-) family. Nevertheless, even addressing canonical examples of so called subordinate quand, many important issues remain unresolved, concerning the categorical status as well as the syntactic behaviour of this item. I begin by presenting a review of the analysis of all the cases of quand that can be found in the literature, and a critical appraisal of the current frameworks. Then we address the inadequacies of the empirical basis on which rely traditional descriptions, by means of a corpus based using written and spoken authentic data, including examples from the Web. The collected examples are next analysed in a descriptive framework based on the pronominal approach (Blanche Benveniste et alii, 1984). The main results are: quand has mainly the distributional status of a qu- pronoun, even in cases in which it is traditionally analysed as a conjunction, it is found either in movement or ordinary clauses, and is involved in a wide scope of syntactic structures from grammatical constructions to discourse patterns.
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