Clitic position in Old Occitan affirmative verb-first declaratives coordinated by e
| Autor: | Bryan Donaldson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language History 05 social sciences Object (grammar) Verb Context (language use) Language and Linguistics Linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Position (vector) Clitic 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0305 other medical science Adverbial |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Historical Linguistics. 10:389-426 |
| ISSN: | 2210-2124 2210-2116 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/jhl.19002.don |
| Popis: | This paper offers a variationist analysis of object and adverbial clitic position in coordinated affirmative verb-first main declaratives introduced by e(t) “and” in Old Occitan. In this context, clitics occur in either preverbal (e·l vestit “and clothed him”) or postverbal position (e perdonet li “and pardoned him”). Following recent work on Medieval Romance coordination, I posit that proclitic and enclitic examples reflect different coordination structures at the underlying syntactic level. Data from complete analyses of five major 13th- and 14th-century texts, analyzed in a variationist approach using logistic regression, reveal that the choice between coordination structures – and hence, between proclisis and enclisis – is principled rather than random and depends on the degree of continuity or rupture/discontinuity between the conjuncts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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