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Lingvisticæ InvestigationesVol. 37:1 (2014) ► pp.156–180
Le prédicat résultatif adjectival en français médiéval
The goal of this article is to show that adjectival resultative secondary predication was a syntactic possibility in Medieval French. From a diachronic point of view, the presence of this construction is surprising given that it is attested neither in Latin nor in Modern French. From a typological point of view, the presence of adjectival resultative secondary predicates in Old French is somewhat expected given the presence of other resultative secondary predication constructions during that period. This study takes a predominantly descriptive point of view with the aim of contributing to our knowledge of this stage of the French language and its evolution with respect to other languages.
Keywords: résultatifs, telicity, typology, Old French, français médiéval, télicité, adjectifs resultatives, typologie, adjectives, prepositions
Article language: French
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