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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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Arteaga, Deborah L. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Σειρά:Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 88
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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.