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- Title
L'ESSOR DE LA PROPOSITION PARTICIPIALE DANS LA PROSE HISTORIQUE.
- Authors
Bengtsson, Anders
- Abstract
This article in historical linguistics of the French language is a survey of the use of participial propositions in three historical prose texts from the Middle French era: the Miroir historial of Jean de Vignay, the Miroir historial of Jean de Noyal, which is in fact a compilation from the same century, concluding with a comparative reading of another historical work: Commynes' Memoires. Even if this text is not properly speaking a translation from the Latin, it clearly echoes its periods. Originating at the beginning of the fourteenth century, the construction managed to survive across ensuing centuries, ultimately becoming an integral part of the French written language. Its progress in Middle French can be accounted for in part by the expansion of nominal forms of the verb such as the present participle and gerundive. Its actual origins may have more to do with the (re)latinisation characterising the period. It seems clear however that the participial propositions are indeed abundant in historical prose texts, since the construction is a means of accelerating the action of events. Could this genre be in part responsible for the progress of the construction in French?
- Subjects
HISTORICAL linguistics; LANGUAGE &; history; PROSE literature; FRENCH literature; DE Vignay, Jean
- Publication
Medieval Chronicle, 2013, Vol 8, p113
- ISSN
1567-2336
- Publication type
Article