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Expletive and referential subject pronouns in Medieval French / / Michael Zimmermann



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Autore: Zimmermann Michael Visualizza persona
Titolo: Expletive and referential subject pronouns in Medieval French / / Michael Zimmermann Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina: 445
Soggetto topico: French language - To 1300 - Pronoun
Soggetto non controllato: Historical Morpho-syntax
Medieval French
Null-Subjects
Subject Pronouns
Classificazione: ID 2125
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The development of subject pronouns in Medieval and Classical French -- 3. Discussion of previous approaches to subject pronouns in Medieval French -- 4. An alternative approach to subject pronouns in Medieval French -- 5. Outlook: The general loss of non-expressed subject pronouns in Classical French -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Medieval French, usually analyzed as a null subject language, differs considerably from modern Romance null subject languages such as Spanish in the availability of non-expressed subject pronouns; specifically, it shows characteristics reminiscent of non-null, rather than null subject languages, such as the expression of expletive subject pronouns. The central goal of this book is to put forward an account of these differences. On the basis of the analysis of an extensive, newly established data corpus, the development of the expression of both expletive and referential subject pronouns until the 17th c. is determined. Following a thorough discussion of previous approaches, an alternative approach is presented which builds on the analysis of Medieval French as a non-null subject language. The non-expression of subject pronouns, licit in specific contexts in non-null subject languages, is shown to be restricted to configurations generally involving left-peripheral focalization. These configurations - and, concomitantly, non-expressed subject pronouns - are finally argued to be eventually lost for good in the wake of the initial observation by 17th c. writers of pertinent instructions campaigned for in highly influential works of language use.
Titolo autorizzato: Expletive and referential subject pronouns in Medieval French  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-11-039430-8
3-11-036747-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817709403321
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Serie: Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; ; Volume 556.