Reconsidering variation and change in the Medieval French subject system
This article draws on a novel corpus of medieval texts to explore diachronic change in the French subject system. It is argued that the relative frequency of null, preverbal and postverbal subjects is affected by changes in the syntax-information structure mapping during the medieval period, with th...
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| description | This article draws on a novel corpus of medieval texts to explore diachronic change in the French subject system. It is argued that the relative frequency of null, preverbal and postverbal subjects is affected by changes in the syntax-information structure mapping during the medieval period, with the discourse value of both preverbal and postverbal subjects diachronically variable across the textual records. Furthermore, the discourse value of both so-called Germanic- and Romance- inversion structures is subject to change in the syntax-pragmatics mapping.
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:08cdef33-c0cc-46b7-a776-dbd22d8f96092022-03-26T09:14:54ZReconsidering variation and change in the Medieval French subject systemJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:08cdef33-c0cc-46b7-a776-dbd22d8f9609EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordUbiquity Press2020Wolfe, SThis article draws on a novel corpus of medieval texts to explore diachronic change in the French subject system. It is argued that the relative frequency of null, preverbal and postverbal subjects is affected by changes in the syntax-information structure mapping during the medieval period, with the discourse value of both preverbal and postverbal subjects diachronically variable across the textual records. Furthermore, the discourse value of both so-called Germanic- and Romance- inversion structures is subject to change in the syntax-pragmatics mapping. |
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| title | Reconsidering variation and change in the Medieval French subject system |
| title_full | Reconsidering variation and change in the Medieval French subject system |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Reconsidering variation and change in the Medieval French subject system |
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