24.2267, Books: Change of Object Expression in the History of French: Troberg

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Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:18:17
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Change of Object Expression in the History of French: Troberg

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Title: Change of Object Expression in the History of French 
Subtitle: Verbs of Helping and Hindering 
Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.c-s-p.org

Book URL: http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Dynamic-Two-Place-Indirect-Verbs-in-French--A-Synchronic-and-Diachronic-Study-in-Variation-and-Chang1-4438-4567-1.htm 

Author: Michelle Troberg

Hardback: ISBN: 1443845671 9781443845670 Pages: 225 Price: U.K. £ 44.99
Hardback: ISBN: 1443845671 9781443845670 Pages: 225 Price: U.S. $ 67.99

Abstract:

This comprehensive case study of a systematic shift in object expression
provides valuable insight into the construal of certain two-place activity
verbs in the history of French and how a change in the prepositional system
can have dramatic effects on the way their object is realised.

The book focuses on nineteen verbs of helping and hindering whose single
internal object shifts from indirect to direct object during the 15th and 16th
centuries, describing how these verbs are distinguished from all other verbs
in French taking indirect objects and answering why their indirect object was
the target of change. Troberg draws on cross-linguistic facts and offers a
richly detailed qualitative and quantitative examination of the data to show
that contrary to previous approaches to the problem, the shift was not random
or a result of low-level analogical changes, but rather that it was decisively
systematic and thus unified.

An important outcome of the study links the shift in object expression to
other changes in the grammar at the end of the Middle French period. The
author argues that the loss of the syntactically derived “Path” meaning,
available to simple prepositions in the earlier stages of French, entails not
only the shift in object expression, but also the loss of a number of
resultative secondary predicates at the same time.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): French (fra)

Written In: English  (eng)

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