Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: The aim of this article is threefold. First, I argue that the loss of the negative particle ne is chronologically and structurally correlated with the rise of Wh-in-situ interrogatives in Modem Spoken French. Second, I try to show that both evolutions are conceptually derivable from a change in verbal formal features : in Spoken French, the verb has lost the modal features that trigger syntactic and morphological operations in other Romance languages. Third, I suggest that such an evolution could be explained in phonological terms.
Source: Langue française
DOI: 10.3917/lf.141.0110
Author: Mario Barra Jover
Language: French
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2017333813