Remarques sur les origines latines de l'article défini des langues romanes (A propos de : Maria Selig, Die Entwicklung der Nominaldeterminanten im Spätlatein) ; S. Déléani, Chronique de latin tardif
| Autor: | Michèle Fruyt |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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| Zdroj: | Antiquité Tardive. 4:345-350 |
| ISSN: | 2295-9718 1250-7334 |
| DOI: | 10.1484/j.at.2.301048 |
| Popis: | Maria Selig's book looks at the development of the definite article from Latin to the Romance languages, seeking out the various elements that played a role in that process. Her work is not limited to just those lexical units that phonetically developed into the Romance articles (ille, ipse), but covers a variety of units and expressions. However, the author appears to concentrate too much on the anaphoric function, ignoring to a large extent the other functions of these elements. Her analysis of this development of the definite article produces a complex and multi-faceted picture, a "multi-factorial" model claiming its justification from variational linguistics. The main criticisms of this work concern: the questionable use of the universal standard called "written Latin"; the author's criteria of choice for the texts she has analysed; and her method of counting occurrences, which does not take account of the different functions of the words counted. Moreover the author views her mate rial from the point... |
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