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French anticausatives : A diachronic perspective / Steffen Heidinger.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Linguistische Arbeiten ; 537Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (205 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110251340
  • 9783110251357
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 445.6
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Anticausatives -- 3. The Emergence of the French reflexive anticausative -- 4. The Spread of the French reflexive anticausative -- 5. The Semantic relation between French reflexive and unmarked anticausatives -- 6. Auxiliary selection in unmarked anticausatives and the spread of the reflexive anticausative -- 7. Conclusion
Dissertation note: Diss. Université Paris 8 2008. Summary: Dieses Buch widmet sich der diachronen Entwicklung von Valenzalternationen, d.h. der Verwendung eines Verbs in verschiedenen syntaktischen Konstruktionen. Wie entstehen neue Mittel des formalen Ausdrucks der Alternationen, wie breiten sich diese neuen Mittel aus und welche sind die Auswirkungen der Entstehung und Ausbreitung auf bereits bestehende Mittel? Diese Fragen werden im vorliegenden Buch anhand der Entwicklung der französischen Kausativ-Antikausativ-Alternation behandelt.Summary: How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how and why do they spread, and what are the consequences of their emergence and spread for already existing patterns? This book discusses these questions on the basis of a concrete example of valence alternation, the French causative-anticausative alternation. The main focus of the proposed analysis is the anticausative member of the alternation and the relation between the two formal types of anticausative verbs in French, the reflexive and the unmarked anticausative (La branche s'est cassée vs. La branche a cassé 'The branch broke'). The emergence and spread of the reflexive anticausative, the consequences of these processes for the unmarked anticausative and the semantic relation between reflexive and unmarked anticausatives are analyzed on the basis of several corpus studies.

Diss. Université Paris 8 2008.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Anticausatives -- 3. The Emergence of the French reflexive anticausative -- 4. The Spread of the French reflexive anticausative -- 5. The Semantic relation between French reflexive and unmarked anticausatives -- 6. Auxiliary selection in unmarked anticausatives and the spread of the reflexive anticausative -- 7. Conclusion

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Dieses Buch widmet sich der diachronen Entwicklung von Valenzalternationen, d.h. der Verwendung eines Verbs in verschiedenen syntaktischen Konstruktionen. Wie entstehen neue Mittel des formalen Ausdrucks der Alternationen, wie breiten sich diese neuen Mittel aus und welche sind die Auswirkungen der Entstehung und Ausbreitung auf bereits bestehende Mittel? Diese Fragen werden im vorliegenden Buch anhand der Entwicklung der französischen Kausativ-Antikausativ-Alternation behandelt.

How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how and why do they spread, and what are the consequences of their emergence and spread for already existing patterns? This book discusses these questions on the basis of a concrete example of valence alternation, the French causative-anticausative alternation. The main focus of the proposed analysis is the anticausative member of the alternation and the relation between the two formal types of anticausative verbs in French, the reflexive and the unmarked anticausative (La branche s'est cassée vs. La branche a cassé 'The branch broke'). The emergence and spread of the reflexive anticausative, the consequences of these processes for the unmarked anticausative and the semantic relation between reflexive and unmarked anticausatives are analyzed on the basis of several corpus studies.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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