French anticausatives
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French anticausatives

A diachronic perspective

  1. 213 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

French anticausatives

A diachronic perspective

About this book

How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how and why do they spread, and what are the consequences of their emergence and spread for already existing patterns? This book discusses these questions on the basis of a concrete example of valence alternation, the French causative-anticausative alternation. The main focus of the proposed analysis is the anticausative member of the alternation and the relation between the two formal types of anticausative verbs in French, the reflexive and the unmarked anticausative (La branche s'est cassée vs. La branche a cassé 'The branch broke'). The emergence and spread of the reflexive anticausative, the consequences of these processes for the unmarked anticausative and the semantic relation between reflexive and unmarked anticausatives are analyzed on the basis of several corpus studies.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9783110251340
eBook ISBN
9783110251357
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
French Language
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. List of Abbreviations
  4. 1. Introduction
  5. 2. Anticausatives
  6. 3. The Emergence of the French reflexive anticausative
  7. 4. The Spread of the French reflexive anticausative
  8. 5. The Semantic relation between French reflexive and unmarked anticausatives
  9. 6. Auxiliary selection in unmarked anticausatives and the spread of the reflexive anticausative
  10. 7. Conclusion