Author | Vance, Barbara S. author |
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Title | Syntactic Change in Medieval French [electronic resource] : Verb-Second and Null Subjects / by Barbara S. Vance |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8843-0 |
Descript | X, 402 p. online resource |
1: Introduction -- 1.0. V2 and Null Subjects in the History of French -- 1.1. The Theoretical Framework -- 1.2. The Texts and the Methodology -- 1.3. Outline -- Notes -- 2: Old French as a V2 Language -- 2.1. Verb-Second Word Order -- 2.2. Theoretical Approaches to V2 in Romance and Germanic -- 2.3. V2 in Embedded Clauses -- 2.4. Conclusion on Theories of V2 -- Notes -- 3: Main Clause Word Order in Old French -- 3.0. Overview of the Chapter -- One: V2 Effects and Main Clause Word Order -- Two: V2 and the Nature of Spec, AgrP -- Notes -- 4: Subordinate Clause Word Order in Old French -- 4.0. Overview of the Chapter -- 4.1. SVX Clauses -- 4.2. SPCV and Relative QUI CV Clauses -- 4.3. The Status of V2 Inversion in Embedded Clauses -- 4.4. Non-V2 Inversion in Old French Embedded Clauses -- 4.5. Conclusion to Chapter Four -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Notes -- 5: Null Subjects in Old French -- 5.0. Introduction: Old French and the Romance Null Subject Languages -- 5.1. The Syntactic Distribution of pro in OFr -- 5.2. Identification of proโs Content: The Role of Inflection -- 5.3. Exceptions to the Regular Distribution of pro in OFr -- 5.4. Null and Overt Atonic Pronouns in OFr Discourse -- 5.5. Conclusion to Chapter Five -- Notes -- 6: Null Subjects and Syntactic Change in Middle French -- 6.0. Overview -- 6.1. Syntactic Changes in the 15th Century -- 6.2. Against A V to C Analysis of CSV in Middle French -- 6.3. The Distribution of Null Subjects in the 15th Century -- 6.4. THE LOSS OF pro -- 6.5. Conclusion to Chapter Six -- Notes -- 7: The Decline and Loss of V2 in French -- 7.0. Introduction -- 7.1. Previous Accounts of the Loss of V2 in French -- 7.2. The Decline of V2 -- 7.3. The Loss of V2 -- 7.4. Conclusion: V2 and Null Subjects -- Notes -- References -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages