33.2167, Books: Syntactic Change in French: Wolfe

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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 11:52:36
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: Syntactic Change in French: Wolfe

 


Title: Syntactic Change in French 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/syntactic-change-in-french-9780198864318?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Sam Wolfe

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198864318 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 100


Abstract:

This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date
of the evolution of French syntax. It makes use of the latest formal syntactic
tools and combines careful textual analysis with a detailed synthesis of the
research literature to provide a novel analysis of the major syntactic
developments in the history of French. The empirical scope of the volume is
exceptionally broad, and includes discussion of syntactic variation and change
in Latin, Old, Middle, Renaissance, and Classical French, and standard and
non-standard varieties of Modern French. Following an introduction to the
general trends in grammatical change from Latin to French, Sam Wolfe explores
a wide range of phenomena including the left periphery, subject positions and
null subjects, verb movement, object placement, negation, and the makeup of
the nominal expression. The book concludes with a comparative analysis of how
French has come to develop the unique typological profile it has within
Romance today. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers
and students in French and comparative Romance linguistics, as well as for
readers interested in grammatical theory and historical linguistics more
broadly.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): French (fra)


Written In: English  (eng)

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