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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821990403321

Autore

Heidinger Steffen <1978->

Titolo

French anticausatives : a diachronic perspective / / Steffen Heidinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2010

ISBN

1-282-88526-X

9786612885266

3-11-219191-9

3-11-025135-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 pages)

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727 ; ; 537.

Classificazione

ID 4870

Disciplina

440

445

Soggetti

French language - Causative

French language - Reflexives

French language - Verb

French language - Grammar, Historical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Anticausatives -- 3. The Emergence of the French reflexive anticausative -- 4. The Spread of the French reflexive anticausative -- 5. The Semantic relation between French reflexive and unmarked anticausatives -- 6. Auxiliary selection in unmarked anticausatives and the spread of the reflexive anticausative -- 7. Conclusion

Sommario/riassunto

How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how and why do they spread, and what are the consequences of their emergence and spread for already existing patterns? This book discusses these questions on the basis of a concrete example of valence alternation, the French causative-anticausative alternation. The main focus of the proposed analysis is the anticausative member of the alternation and the relation between the two formal types of anticausative verbs in French, the reflexive and the unmarked anticausative (La branche s'est cassée vs. La branche a cassé 'The branch broke'). The emergence and spread of the reflexive anticausative, the consequences of these



processes for the unmarked anticausative and the semantic relation between reflexive and unmarked anticausatives are analyzed on the basis of several corpus studies.