Abstract
The concept of language or discourse ‘chunk’ is a very unlikely candidate for theoretical status. It simply offers, like all theoretical constructs do, a point of view on certain aspects of the way language works. It is used here to underline the fact that the canonical hierarchy of linguistic units and levels, the systematic arrangement of combinatory, dependency or scope relations, fail to account in a satisfying way for a certain number of langage phenomena which can, however, only be explained in direct relation to these levels and relations, which they transcend or transgress. This article aims to illustrate, by means of examples taken mainly from French and English, the great variety of phenomena that can be apprehended through this ex-centric approach.
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