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Interrogatives, negatives, and the evolution of verbal formal features in spoken French The aim of this article is threefold. First, I argue that the loss of the negative particle ne is chronologically and structurally correlated with the rise of Wh-in-situ interrogatives in Modem Spoken French...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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2004
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | Interrogatives, negatives, and the evolution of verbal formal features in spoken French The aim of this article is threefold. First, I argue that the loss of the negative particle ne is chronologically and structurally correlated with the rise of Wh-in-situ interrogatives in Modem Spoken French. Second, I try to show that both evolutions are conceptually derivable from a change in verbal formal features : in Spoken French, the verb has lost the modal features that trigger syntactic and morphological operations in other Romance languages. Third, I suggest that such an evolution could be explained in phonological terms. |
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