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Syntactic change in French /

Providing the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax, this title covers syntactic variation and change across all periods of French, and in standard and non-standard varieties, and explores phenomena such as subject positions and null subjects, verb...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolfe, Sam (Professor of French linguistics) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Series:Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 47.
Subjects:
French language > Syntax.
Français (Langue) > Syntaxe.
Syntax.
Linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES.
French language > Syntax
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Grammatical change from Latin to French
  • 3 The left periphery
  • 4 Verb placement and verb movement
  • 5 The subject system
  • 6 OV orders and the middlefield
  • 7 A new perspective on syntactic changein French
  • References
  • Index.