The microvariation of post-verbal negative particles in Old Gallo-Romance: a comparative study
<p>This thesis is a microvariational analysis of post-verbal negative particles in varieties of Old Gallo-Romance between the years 1100 and 1500 A.D. It examines the internal and exogenous factors contributing to the survival of certain particles and the disuse of others. Using a mixture of v...
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| author | Lloyd, AJ |
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| description | <p>This thesis is a microvariational analysis of post-verbal negative particles in varieties of Old Gallo-Romance between the years 1100 and 1500 A.D. It examines the internal and exogenous factors contributing to the survival of certain particles and the disuse of others. Using a mixture of verse and prose data from six oïl varieties and ten oc varieties of Old Gallo-Romance, it draws comparisons between them from the following perspectives: rates and degrees of grammaticalisation; the influence of discourse-pragmatics and information-structure on their presence, absence and frequency of occurrence; their diatopic and diachronic spread; and the effect that standardisation, linguistic prestige, and a scribal koiné had on the diminishing number of competing post-verbal negative particles in the grammar. In essence, it seeks to clarify why pas, as one of several hundred so-called ‘minimisers’, came to be the default sentential negator in French, rather than any other competing variant. </p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ee123eb6-074e-4368-bd13-b52a35a01c862022-07-21T16:17:39ZThe microvariation of post-verbal negative particles in Old Gallo-Romance: a comparative studyThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:ee123eb6-074e-4368-bd13-b52a35a01c86French language--To 1300SyntaxFrench languageOccitan philologyHistorical linguisticsEnglishHyrax Deposit2021Lloyd, AJWolfe, S<p>This thesis is a microvariational analysis of post-verbal negative particles in varieties of Old Gallo-Romance between the years 1100 and 1500 A.D. It examines the internal and exogenous factors contributing to the survival of certain particles and the disuse of others. Using a mixture of verse and prose data from six oïl varieties and ten oc varieties of Old Gallo-Romance, it draws comparisons between them from the following perspectives: rates and degrees of grammaticalisation; the influence of discourse-pragmatics and information-structure on their presence, absence and frequency of occurrence; their diatopic and diachronic spread; and the effect that standardisation, linguistic prestige, and a scribal koiné had on the diminishing number of competing post-verbal negative particles in the grammar. In essence, it seeks to clarify why pas, as one of several hundred so-called ‘minimisers’, came to be the default sentential negator in French, rather than any other competing variant. </p> |
| spellingShingle | French language--To 1300 Syntax French language Occitan philology Historical linguistics Lloyd, AJ The microvariation of post-verbal negative particles in Old Gallo-Romance: a comparative study |
| title | The microvariation of post-verbal negative particles in Old Gallo-Romance: a comparative study |
| title_full | The microvariation of post-verbal negative particles in Old Gallo-Romance: a comparative study |
| title_fullStr | The microvariation of post-verbal negative particles in Old Gallo-Romance: a comparative study |
| title_full_unstemmed | The microvariation of post-verbal negative particles in Old Gallo-Romance: a comparative study |
| title_short | The microvariation of post-verbal negative particles in Old Gallo-Romance: a comparative study |
| title_sort | microvariation of post verbal negative particles in old gallo romance a comparative study |
| topic | French language--To 1300 Syntax French language Occitan philology Historical linguistics |
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