A step forward in understandingpas: the post-verbal negator in Old Occitan from the perspective of communication and rhetorical strategizing
| Autor: | Sandra Paoli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie. 136:1018-1048 |
| ISSN: | 1865-9063 0049-8661 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/zrp-2020-0056 |
| Popis: | In recent years, within the cognitive linguistics approach there has been a trend of scholarly research committed to exploring the motivation for language change. The way in which people use language in communication, together with principles of human categorization, are the locus where language change and innovations are to be found. Interactional contexts in particular, seen as playing a crucial role in bringing about syntactic change (Traugott 2010b), have figured prominently in recent contributions on diachronic micro-changes, bringing to the fore the role played by dialogue as both the manifestation of the participants’ own voices and the realization of the constant negotiation that characterizes human communication. Against this background, this contribution focuses on a particular use of the Occitan post-verbal negatorpasin negative rhetorical questions, which was very productive in fifteenth-century collections of religious theatrical texts. It is claimed that these dialogic contexts allowed a polyphonic use ofpas, crucially restricted to this post-verbal negator, which is key to identifying the reasons behind the eventual establishment ofpasas the generalized sentential negator in the modern language. |
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