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- Title
Clause Structure and Illocutionary Force in Medieval Gallo-Romance: Clitic Position in Old Occitan and Early Old French Sentential Coordination.
- Authors
Donaldson, Bryan
- Abstract
This paper analyzes the position of object and adverbial clitic pronouns in coordinated affirmative verb-first declaratives introduced by e(t) "and" in Old Occitan and early Old French, a context in which clitics are variably preverbal or postverbal. An empirical study reveals that this variation is principled and reflects semantico-discursive properties in the same way in these two related and grammatically similar medieval Gallo-Romance varieties. On a theoretical level, I posit that preverbal clitics occur when conjunction occurs at the TP level, and postverbal clitics occur when conjunction occurs at the CP level, and that the choice of clause structure (TP vs. CP) for second conjunct clauses depends on illocutionary force, which in turn depends on discourse coherence relations and the semantics of verba dicendi (verbs of utterance).
- Subjects
PRONOUNS (Grammar); SEMANTICS; VERBS; SYNTAX (Grammar); DISCOURSE
- Publication
Probus: International Journal of Latin & Romance Linguistics, 2021, Vol 33, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0921-4771
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/prbs-2020-0009