Reconsidering variation and change in the Medieval French subject system
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22130565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wolfe (0000-0002-5509-2622, St. Catherine University, corresponding author), Sam Wolfe (St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Glossa a journal of general linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2397-1835 • E-ISSN: 2397-1835 |
| Publisher | Open Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5334/gjgl.942 |
| OpenAlex | W3036272786 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
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
German · Germanic languages · Linguistics · Middle English · Pragmatics · Romance languages · Syntax · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |