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Syntactic Change in French (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics) - Hardcover

Book 45 of 47: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics

Wolfe, Sam

 
9780198864318: Syntactic Change in French (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

Synopsis

This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax. It covers syntactic variation and change across all periods of French, and in standard and non-standard varieties, and explores phenomena such as subject positions and null subjects, verb movement, object placement, and negation.

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About the Author

Sam Wolfe, Associate Professor of French Linguistics, University of Oxford

Sam Wolfe is Associate Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Oxford and Tutor and Official Fellow of St Catherine's College, having previously held teaching positions at the universities of Cambridge and Manchester. His first book, Verb Second in Medieval Romance, was published by OUP in 2019, and he is the co-editor, with Rebecca Woods, of Rethinking Verb Second (OUP 2020) and, with Martin Maiden, of Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar (OUP 2020). The focus of his current research is syntactic change in French, closely related Gallo-Romance varieties, and Northern Italian Dialects.

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