Journal article
Reconsidering variation and change in the Medieval French subject system
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This article draws on a novel corpus of medieval texts to explore diachronic change in the French subject system. It is argued that the relative frequency of null, preverbal and postverbal subjects is affected by changes in the syntax-information structure mapping during the medieval period, with the discourse value of both preverbal and postverbal subjects diachronically variable across the textual records. Furthermore, the discourse value of both so-called Germanic- and Romance- inversion s...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Ubiquity Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Glossa Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 59
- Publication date:
- 2020-06-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-05-26
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2397-1835
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:1080792
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- Local pid:
- pubs:1080792
- Source identifiers:
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1080792
- Deposit date:
- 2020-01-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Sam Wolfe
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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