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This paper is aimed at analyzing the French Nominal Emphatic Constructions. In this study, we will draw the following conclusions with respect to the distributional properties in these constructions. First, the noun has to be determined, but the noun combined with not-defined quantifiers can not be emphasized neither by the “c'est...qui/que” structure, nor by the dislocation. In particular, emphatic NPs must be defined by the determination of nouns because the genitive NP is possible to be dislocated, only with determinants. Second, only the real complement can move in the “c'est...qui/que” structure. Third, when an NP forms an idiomatic expression, it can not be emphasized, but a contrastive meaning allows of emphatic constructions. Finally, the pronominal forms of nouns must be emphatic, and in case of dislocation, the pronominal elements must be properly selected in accordance with the features and functions of substantive NPs. Consequently, these types of analysis will be applied in the future study of emphatic constructions of prepositional phrases and other elements in a sentence.