Research on Old French: The State of the Art
The present volume presents scholarly study into Old French as it is practiced today, in all of its forms, within a variety of theoretical frameworks, from Optimality Theory to Minimalism to Discourse Analysis.� Many of the chapters are corpus-based, reflecting a new trend in the field, as more elec...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Series: | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory,
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4768-5 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A Diachronic View of Old French Genitive Constructions
- Grammaticalization in Progress in Old French: Indefinite Aarticles
- Null Objects in Old French
- Compensatory Lengthening in Historical French: The Role of the Speaker
- �Perception, Production and Markedness in Sound Change: French Velar Palatalization
- Evolution and Regrammation in the Mood System: Perspectives from Old, Middle, Renaissance and Modern French
- Analogy among French Sounds
- The Development of the Declension System
- The Diasystem and its Role in Generating Meaning: Diachronic Evidence from Old French
- Synchronic studies
- Crusaders Old French
- The Use of the Future and Conditional in High Medieval Literature
- Old French Parataxis: Syntactic Variant or Stylistic Variation?- A Derivational Approach to Negative Polarity Item Licensing in Old French
- Theoretical� Issues� in� Old� French� Inflectional� Morpho(phono)logy
- Forms and Functions of Reported Discourse in Medieval French
- The Left-periphery in Old French
- Grammatical Meaning and the Old French Subjunctive.