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Preverbal subjects with a partitive article: A comparison between Aosta Valley Francoprovençal and French

Ihsane, Tabea (2022). Preverbal subjects with a partitive article: A comparison between Aosta Valley Francoprovençal and French. Studia Linguistica. A Journal of General Linguistics, 76(1):130-166.

Abstract

In this paper, we focus on two constructions that allow preverbal subjects headed by a so-called partitive article in French, that is, sentences with a stage-level predicate and generic emphatic constructions. The aim is to explain why their counterparts were generally not accepted by speakers of Francoprovençal, an endangered and understudied Gallo-Romance language, in a translation task carried out in fieldwork in the Aosta Valley in Italy (Ihsane 2018, Stark & Gerards 2020). To account for our results, we propose that preverbal subjects in the two languages have different statuses and develop the typology of languages postulated by Dobrovie-Sorin & Laca (2003): we argue that there are more than two types of languages when it comes to the status of preverbal subjects and that Francoprovençal differs not only from French (Ihsane 2018), but also from languages like Spanish: it generally has topical subjects like Spanish but also allows some subjects that represent new information to occur preverbally. In contrast to French, however, this option is restricted to nominals that reach a certain degree of referential givenness (Gundel 2003).

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Romance Studies
Dewey Decimal Classification:800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism
470 Latin & Italic languages
410 Linguistics
440 French & related languages
460 Spanish & Portuguese languages
450 Italian, Romanian & related languages
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Language and Linguistics
Social Sciences & Humanities > Linguistics and Language
Social Sciences & Humanities > History and Philosophy of Science
Uncontrolled Keywords:History and Philosophy of Science, Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics
Language:English
Date:1 April 2022
Deposited On:28 Feb 2022 11:32
Last Modified:27 Oct 2024 02:39
Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
ISSN:0039-3193
OA Status:Hybrid
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/stul.12180
Project Information:
  • Funder: SNF
  • Grant ID: 100012L_172751
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