Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-15352
Authors: Rainsford, Thomas
Title: De-prefixed spatial Ps in medieval French
Issue Date: 2019
metadata.ubs.publikation.typ: Konferenzbeitrag
metadata.ubs.konferenzname: Going Romance (30., 2016, Frankfurt am Main)
metadata.ubs.publikation.seiten: 30
metadata.ubs.publikation.source: Feldhausen, Ingo (Hrsg.), Elsig, Martin (Hrsg.), Kuchenbrandt, Imme (Hrsg.), Neuhaus, Mareike (Hrsg.): Romance languages and linguistic theory 15 : selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 30, Frankfurt. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. - ISBN 978-90-272-0337-3, S. 277-294
URI: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-ds-153711
http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/handle/11682/15371
http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-15352
ISBN: 978-90-272-0337-3
Abstract: We examine a series of medieval French spatial Ps with de- prefixes (de-forms; e.g. dessus, dedans), showing that they display a combination of preposition-, adverb- and noun-like syntactic properties which distinguish them from their corresponding base forms (e.g. sus, ens). We argue that these properties can best be accounted for by considering de-forms to be modifiers of a null PLACE noun. Finally, we suggest that during the medieval period, de-forms are reanalysed as nouns, which causes wide-ranging changes in their distribution, including the development of complex prepositions such as au-dessus de.
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