Les subordonnées à double complémentateur en roman médiéval

Wanner, Dieter

doi:10.1515/9783110961522.421

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“…Indeed, in Romanian in the presence of a fronted topic or focus both complementizer positions can be simultaneously realized in irrealis complement clauses (15a). Such recomplementation structures are also frequent in many early Romance varieties (Wanner 1998;Paoli 2005;Ledgeway 2004, §4.3.2.2;2005, 380-381;Vincent 2006) as well as many other modern varieties (Ledgeway 2012, §4.4 Unlike in Latin where the clausal boundary was not overtly signalled in the accusative with infinitive construction (cf. (3a)), we thus see that in Romance not only is the clausal boundary overtly marked by an overt complementizer, but that even the lower and higher confines of the entire left periphery may be analytically spelt out.…”

Section: Complementizersmentioning

confidence: 98%

Syntheticity and analyticity

Ledgeway¹,

Dufter²,

Stark³

2012

From Latin to RomanceMorphosyntactic Typology and Change

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The present chapter critically reconsiders the traditional typological distinction between Latin and Romance in terms of a syntheticity-analyticity opposition, according to which core grammatical categories and distinctions are marked morphologically in Latin but syntactically in Romance. After considering a wide selection of the Romance evidence for innovative analytic structures manifested in the emergence of a series of functional categories lexicalizing various functional heads within the nominal, verbal and clausal domains, a number of empirical and theoretical problems and limitations with this superficial dichotomy are reviewed. These highlight how the observed differences between Latin and Romance cannot be simplistically reduced to a synthetic-analytic opposition. Rather, it is argued that the observed rise of Romance analyticity should be considered an epiphenomenal development, ultimately the manifestation of a deeper change, but not, significantly, its cause, related to a change in the head directionality parameter from head-finality to head-initiality.

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Section: Complementizersmentioning

confidence: 98%

Syntheticity and analyticity

Ledgeway¹,

Dufter²,

Stark³

2012

From Latin to RomanceMorphosyntactic Typology and Change

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“…It is indeed attested, though sporadically, by Flutre (1970) in the first half of the 17 th century, for Picard in a slightly larger region, and can be traced back at least to 14 th century charters of the Douai/Arras region, cf. (14): (14) Giraud et al (2010) [ Besides, Wanner (1995) notes that complementizer doubling is attested in Old French, and Foulet (1919: 266-267, §402) presents it as frequent, though he illustrates the fact with four citations, three of which are from Picard literary texts, and one (La Chastelaine de Vergi) has been expertized as coming from the Paris region but with dialectal features from Picardy and Burgundy. Same thing for Buridant (2007), who quotes one Picard literary text from the XIII th c., and one Anglo-Normand text.…”

Section: A Vertical View: Small Scale Data and Complementizer Doublingmentioning

confidence: 99%

SyMiLa and the <i>Atlas linguistique de la France</i>: A tool for the study of Gallo-Romance syntax

Dagnac

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper presents different ways in which the Gallo-Romance data of the Atlas linguistique de la France (ALF) can contribute to syntactic description, typology and analysis. After briefly presenting the SyMiLa project, which aims at making such data accessible, it presents four case-studies. The first one focuses on wh-questions, which provide a horizontal perspective over the whole Gallo-Romance varieties. The complete data set shows how the dominant wh-structures distribute over the Gallo-Romance domain, and how the rarer ones argue for an articulated CP where que 'that' stands in Fin, and for a compositional nature of est-ce que. The next section turns to a vertical perspective on the data: it focuses on a very local phenomenon, complementizer doubling, and shows how the ALF reveals an optional but consistent behavior, which adds evidence to a head-movement analysis and suggests that complementizer doubling and recomplementation correspond to two different configurations. The last section deals with isolated data, that could not per se lead to any clear syntactic claim. Anecdotal and unsystematic as they may seem in the atlas, these data signal structures that, as further research shows, can enrich and/or challenge previous generalizations on interrogative clause typing and Negative Concord, respectively. In the latter case, they call for typologies and analyses of Negative Concord that include both optional concord and partial concord.

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“…The phenomenon of multiple-complementizer constructions illustrated in (1) and (2) has commanded much attention in the field in recent years and has emerged as a fruitful area of research for investigations into the left periphery (Escribano 1991;Campos 1992;Iatridou & Kroch 1992;Fontana 1993;Uriagereka 1995;Wanner 1998;Barbosa 2000;Poletto 2000;Martín-González 2002;Rodríguez-Ramalle 2003;Ledgeway 2005;McCloskey 2006;Paoli 2006;Vincent 2006Vincent , 2019Cocchi & Poletto 2007;Mascarenhas 2007;Demonte & Fernández-Soriano 2009Fernández-Rubiera 2009;Etxepare 2010;González i Planas 2010Villa-García 2010Haegeman 2012;Kempchinsky 2013;Gupton 2014;Salvesen 2014;Frank 2016Frank , 2020Munaro 2016;Martínez Vera 2017Salvasen & Walken 2017;Cerrudo Aguilar & Gallego 2018;Echeverría 2021Echeverría , 2022.…”

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Recomplementation as a paratactic phenomenon: Evidence from Spanish and English

Villa-García

Ott²

2022

J. Ling.

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We provide a variety of empirical arguments in favor of a paratactic account of recomplementation constructions, in which a left-dislocated element appears in between two complementizers. Contrary to integrated analyses assuming Complementizer Phrase (CP) recursion or Rizzi’s split periphery, we assume that the dislocated phrase is structurally independent from the embedded clause it precedes, which in turn is an elliptical sentence fragment. The juxtaposed fragmentary sentences are linked by the doubled complementizer, which serves to overtly flag a ‘restart’ in discourse. We show that this account makes a range of welcome predictions while sidestepping non-trivial problems that arise for integrated/cartographic analyses, which assume that dislocated XPs are in left-peripheral positions (such as Spec-TopicP) and that the doubled complementizer spells out Topic0. A further advantage of the approach is that it provides a handle on recomplementation constructions beyond the core cases involving left-dislocation, which reduce to a mere subcase of the general phenomenon of elliptical ‘restarts’ in discourse.

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Les subordonnées à double complémentateur en roman médiéval

Cited by 9 publications

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Syntheticity and analyticity

Syntheticity and analyticity

SyMiLa and the <i>Atlas linguistique de la France</i>: A tool for the study of Gallo-Romance syntax

Recomplementation as a paratactic phenomenon: Evidence from Spanish and English

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