Directed motion in Medieval French
Directed motion in Medieval French
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中世纪法语中的定向运动
DOI：
10.1075/cilt.318.08tro
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2011
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Michelle Troberg
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Michelle Troberg
本文引入的新数据表明，中世纪法语模式就像卫星框架语言一样，定向运动事件可以通过方式动词和表示目的目标的 PP 补足来表达。这与当代法语形成鲜明对比，当代法语是一种典型的动词框架语言，其中定向运动通过路径动词进行编码，方式作为单独的附加短语。从类型学上讲，这些数据与许多其他参数结构属性一致，这些属性将中世纪法语描述为卫星框架，就像英语和荷兰语一样。我认为中世纪法语和现代法语之间差异的根源在于介词元素的扩展功能投射的差异。虽然中世纪法语有一个主动功能投影，允许简单的介词编码路径，但当今的法语却没有。该分析与最近对定向运动结构的描述不同，其中变化轨迹位于宏观参数中。
This paper introduces new data showing that Medieval French patterns like a satellite-framed language in that directed motion events can be expressed via a manner verb and a PP complement denoting a telic goal. This contrasts sharply with contemporary French, a typical verb-framed language, in which directed motion is encoded via path verbs with manner as a separate adjunct phrase. Typologically, the data is consistent with a number of other argument structure properties that characterise Medieval French as satellite-framed much like English and Dutch. I argue that the source of variation between Medieval and present-day French resides in a difference in the extended functional projection of prepositional elements. While Medieval French has an active functional projection that permits simple prepositions to encode path, present-day French does not. The analysis diverges from recent accounts of the directed motion construction in which the locus of variation is situated in a macro-parameter.