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1 online resource (xix, 459 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 41 |
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Oxford linguistics |
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Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 41.
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Oxford linguistics.
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| Contents |
1: Introduction -- PART I: SENTENCE STRUCTURE -- 2: Old Gallo-Romance, periodization, and the left periphery -- 3: Resumptive structures in a Gallo-Romance perspective -- 4: Variation in the Gallo-Romance left periphery: V2, complementizers, and the Gascon enunciative system -- 5: Dialectological evidence for a predicate focus analysis of Gascon que -- 6: Postverbal negators in Gallo-Romance: The view from Old Occitan -- 7: The loss of clitic climbing in French: A Gallo-Romance perspective -- PART II: THE VERB COMPLEX -- 8: Motivating the North-South continuum: Evidence from the perfects of Gallo-Romance -- 9: Active-middle alignment and the aoristic drift: The North-South divide in the Romània on evidence from northern Gallo-Romance -- 10: A comparative analysis of French auxiliation, with new evidence from Montréal -- 11: Présent inclusif and passé composé à valeur de présent accompli in modern French and Occitan -- 12: Future temporal reference in French and Gascon: Aller / anar + infinitive periphrasis and structural transfer in the bilingual grammar -- 13: Mainland and insular Norman: Pronoun sharing and pronoun sparing -- PART III: WORD STRUCTURE -- 14: On the origins of French and Occitan -- 15: Appositive compounds in dialectal and sociolinguistic varieties of French -- 16: Complex versus compound prepositions: Evidence from Gallo-Romance -- 17: Syncretism and metamorphomes in northern Occitan (Lemosin) varieties -- 18: The verbs 'rain' and 'snow' in Gallo-Romance, and other morphological mismatches in diachrony -- References and bibliographical abbreviations -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the Gallo-Romance sub-family. It draws on a wealth of data from standard and non-standard varieties, and adopts a variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches, including traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal syntax, and discourse-pragmatics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 2, 2020) |
| Subject |
French language -- Grammar.
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Occitan language -- Grammar
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Provençal language -- Grammar
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French language -- Grammar
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Occitan language -- Grammar
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Provençal language -- Grammar
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wolfe, Sam (Professor of French linguistics), editor.
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Maiden, Martin, 1957- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192576538 |
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0192576534 |
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