ZeroMarking in French Impersonal Verbs: A Counter Trend to Clitic Morphologization?
ZeroMarking in French Impersonal Verbs: A Counter Trend to Clitic Morphologization?
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法语非人称动词中的零标记:与附加词形态化相反的趋势?
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2004
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Bonnie B. Fonseca
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Bonnie B. Fonseca
0. Introduction An ever-expanding body of work on spoken French shows that subject clitics are losing their clitic status and are becoming increasingly bound to the verb as inflectional prefixes (Ashby 1977 (France), Auger 1994 (Quebec), FonsecaGreber 2000 (Switzerland)). This process of morphologization brings spoken French back in line typologically with other Romance languages as a pro-drop language (Fonseca-Greber 2000). Yet an apparent contradiction appears in the data. At a time when clitic use is on the rise in most linguistic contexts, why do certain impersonal verbs appear sans clitic, apparently in flagrant violation of the general trend toward morphologized verbal prefixes? A corpus analysis invokes markedness to provide a functional explanation of what appears to be a new and separate change.