Definite Reference in Old and Modern French: The Rise and Fall of DP

Paul Boucher

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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Linguistics and language evolution Historical Linguistics and Language Studies

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Abstract This chapter addresses the question of the emergence and evolution of the definite article in French. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 7.2 examines the problem of bare NPs and bare (pronominal) determiners (BD) in Romance and Germanic and discusses the Restricted Quantification Condition, as well as the representation of morphological complexity developed in Kerstens (1993). Section 7.3 looks at data on NPs in Old French between the 9th and 14th centuries. Section 7.4 returns to the reanalysis of D-words in OF and to the problem of case projections in Romance and Germanic.

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