Bridging the gap between Late Latin and Old French

A handbook of morphosyntactic change

Anne Carlier, Lieven Danckaert, Céline Guillot-Barbance, Maria Selig, Jasper Vangaever (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

1000 Seiten

2026
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-055597-4 (ISBN)

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It is generally agreed that, of all the Romance languages, French differs most strongly from its Latin ancestor—but relatively little is known about how exactly this situation came about. The present volume provides fresh leads helping to answer this question, by offering a comprehensive account of the morpho-syntactic changes that took place during the transition from Latin to French,Empirically based on a corpus of Merovingian Latin and Old French texts from ca. 500 until 1250 AD, the quantitative and qualitative analysis covers topics such as the Tense-Aspect-Mood system, quantification, nominal determination, pronouns, subordination, word order, information structure and discourse organisation, while paying special attention to the sociolinguistic properties of each text, as well as to differences between text types and genres.The most innovative feature of the book is that all chapters are co-authored by specialists of Late Latin and of Old French, bringing together the expertise of what have traditionally been two separate research communities. The discussion is informed by the theoretical literature, but not biased towards a particular framework. The book should be of great interest to Latinists and Romanists alike, and, more generally, to historical linguists.

Anne Carlier et Lieven Danckaert, Université de Lille, France; Céline Guillot-Barbance, Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon, France; Maria Selig, Universität Regensburg, Germany; Jasper Vangaever, Université de Lille, France/Universiteit Gent, Belgium

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2022
Zusatzinfo	100 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Altfranzösisch • Corpus Linguistics • Korpuslinguistik • Late Latin • Morphosyntax • morphosyntax, corpus linguistics • Old French • Spätlatein
ISBN-10	3-11-055597-2 / 3110555972
ISBN-13	978-3-11-055597-4 / 9783110555974
Zustand	Neuware