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Expletive and Referential Subject Pronouns in Medieval French (Hardcover)
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Expletive and Referential Subject Pronouns in Medieval French (Hardcover)
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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.
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