Abstract:This article argues that with the original emphasis on dialectal variation, using primarily literary texts from
various regions, analysis of Old French has routinely neglected social variation, providing an incomplete picture of its grammar.
Accordingly, Old French has been identified as typically featuring e.g. “pro-drop”, brace constructions, and single negation. Yet
examination of these features in informal texts, as opposed to the formal texts typ… Show more
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