Probing the syntax of a problematic particle: Old French ‘SI’ revisited
This article presents the findings of a corpus analysis of seven Old French texts to better understand the syntax of the particle SI. It is argued that the texts display clear evidence of synchronic and diachronic variation, much of which has not been noted in the literature. A diachronic grammatica...
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| description | This article presents the findings of a corpus analysis of seven Old French texts to better understand the syntax of the particle SI. It is argued that the texts display clear evidence of synchronic and diachronic variation, much of which has not been noted in the literature. A diachronic grammaticalisation pathway is proposed for SI from a temporal deictic adverb to a Topic continuity marker and then to a FinP expletive which undergoes upwards reanalysis as a ForceP expletive. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:09e5f1e9-5448-49aa-a250-9896184fbc942022-03-26T09:20:58ZProbing the syntax of a problematic particle: Old French ‘SI’ revisitedJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:09e5f1e9-5448-49aa-a250-9896184fbc94Symplectic Elements at OxfordWiley2018Wolfe, SThis article presents the findings of a corpus analysis of seven Old French texts to better understand the syntax of the particle SI. It is argued that the texts display clear evidence of synchronic and diachronic variation, much of which has not been noted in the literature. A diachronic grammaticalisation pathway is proposed for SI from a temporal deictic adverb to a Topic continuity marker and then to a FinP expletive which undergoes upwards reanalysis as a ForceP expletive. |
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| title | Probing the syntax of a problematic particle: Old French ‘SI’ revisited |
| title_full | Probing the syntax of a problematic particle: Old French ‘SI’ revisited |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Probing the syntax of a problematic particle: Old French ‘SI’ revisited |
| title_short | Probing the syntax of a problematic particle: Old French ‘SI’ revisited |
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