Déplacement stylistique à gauche de verbes non conjugués en ancien et en moyen français

Labelle, Marie; Hirschbühler, Paul

doi:10.4000/corpus.2538

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“…Moreover, in subject wh- clauses, where SF is most common in Scandinavian, the rates of V2 are much lower in my data than in the other types of clauses (about half and half V2 and V1), so fronting is in particular not obligatory here. These findings are consistent with Labelle (2007), Labelle and Hirschbühler (2014, to appear, this issue), who argue that Scandinavian-style SF does not exist in OF.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Early work (Roberts 1993, Vance 1997) argued for a recursive CP. As Labelle and Hirschbühler (2014, to appear) note, this can be captured in the structure in (4) following Holmberg's (2015) analysis of Germanic V2: V moves to Fin and X to [Spec,FinP] 15 . A schematic derivation is shown in (4a), with an OF example in (4b) 16 .…”

Section: Accounting For Embedded V2mentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Others, however, make no claim for symmetric V2. Labelle (2007) and Labelle and Hirschbühler (2014, to appear) argue that XV(S) word orders in OF nonconjunctional clauses do not have the properties of Stylistic Inversion, while Labelle (2007) and Zaring (2011b) propose that XVS occurs frequently enough in all types of clauses that it needs to be taken into account in analyses of clause structure. All suggest that an articulated IP structure is available especially in the earliest part of the OF period and is responsible for XVS order in nonconjunctional clauses.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, unlike Sn, Sp always immediately follows the complementizer when the order is SV, and when inverted, it always precedes negative and other short adverbs (e.g., mie ‘not at all’, bien ‘well’) held to occur above I/T. Labelle and Hirschbühler (2014, to appear) propose a clause structure which accounts for this fact, synthesizing Benincà and Poletto's (2004) left-peripheral structure with Rizzi's (1997) FinP and Rizzi and Shlonsky's (2006, 2007) and Rizzi's (2010) SubjP: [ ForceP …[ FrameP (HT/ST) [ TopP LD [ FocusP Emph/Contr/WH-Op [ FinP …[ SubjP …[TP…]]]]]]](HT = HangingTopic; ST = Scenic Topic; LD = Left Dislocated)(Labelle and Hirschbühler, to appear, example (58))…”

Section: Accounting For Embedded V2mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The nature of V2 in Old French: Evidence from subject inversion in embedded clauses

Zaring

2017

Can. J. Linguist.

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Old French (OF) is often characterized as a Germanic-style asymmetric V2 language, although this characterization is often questioned. The present study evaluates the nature of OF V2 from a quantitative perspective. An extensive set of data provided by syntactically annotated corpora shows that both IP and CP structure change over the OF period. Focusing on Germanic inversion – XVS word order – I argue that most of the attested inversion in OF occurs within an elaborated IP structure and that this type of subject inversion dwindles over time due to the decreasing use of null expletives. True Germanic-style embedded V2 does not appear until the late 12th century, and is only rarely used throughout the 13th century. Thus, OF is an asymmetric V2 language, but with a difference, namely in having an IP field that allows for apparent V2 orders and a CP field that is only marginally employed.

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The nature of V2 in Old French: Evidence from subject inversion in embedded clauses

Zaring

2017

Can. J. Linguist.

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“… 16 I consider the scrambled XP to be a subcase of what other authors call a stylistically fronted element (see Mathieu 2013 and Salvesen 2013 for different views on this phenomenon). See also Labelle and Hirschbühler (2014) for a critical review of the term ‘stylistic fronting’.…”

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Aboutness Topics in Old and Middle French: A corpus-based study on the fate of V2

Andrade

2017

Can. J. Linguist.

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This article investigates the loss of aboutness topics in preverbal position in the history of French, using a corpus-based research on preverbal accusative objects. A comparison of Old and Middle French with Modern French reveals that new-information focalization had disappeared by the 14th century, whereas aboutness topicalization had in turn vanished by the end of the 16th century, along with other marked constructions. Combined with the generative premise that independent pragmatic factors should not trigger syntactic change, the results of this study suggest the reanalysis of the grammar as V-to-I in Renaissance French is responsible for blocking the derivation of aboutness topicalization. An alternative proposal based on phase extension and on Relativized Minimality, in a version affecting some types of A′-movement, relates those two diachronic shifts. The article concludes with the idea that the study of marked constructions may be recast as offering diagnostics on broader syntactic changes.

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Stylistic fronting in Old Italian: A phase-based analysis

Franco¹

2017

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Déplacement stylistique à gauche de verbes non conjugués en ancien et en moyen français

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

The nature of V2 in Old French: Evidence from subject inversion in embedded clauses

The nature of V2 in Old French: Evidence from subject inversion in embedded clauses

Aboutness Topics in Old and Middle French: A corpus-based study on the fate of V2

Stylistic fronting in Old Italian: A phase-based analysis

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