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Reflexive Marking in the History of French

法语史上的反身标记

基本信息

批准号：
AH/H034722/1
负责人：
Richard Waltereit
金额：
$ 7.74万
依托单位：
Newcastle University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2010 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH034722%2F1
关键词：
Reflexive Marking History French

项目摘要

This project proposes to investigate diachronic change in the anaphoric system of French. It is built around a striking difference between the use of reflexive pronouns in Old French and Modern French. In the former, the stressed reflexive pronoun soi was widely available for any singular subject, e.g. devant soi voit ses enemis 'he sees his enemies in front of himself', whereas in the latter, the personal pronouns lui or elle are typically used for reference to the subject of the clause (clause-mate anaphora), except with some indefinite pronoun subjects such as on 'one' or chacun 'everyone'. The arguably far-reaching theoretical implications of this have not been appreciated, nor has the change itself been sufficiently charted.Apart from offering descriptive insights into the history of the language, a detailed investigation of this is important for a number of current issues in theoretical linguistics. Firstly, diachronic change in anaphoric systems promises to further our understanding of those systems themselves, in particular with respect to Binding. Secondly, the proposed research has a very particular bearing on the currently much-discussed topic of specificity, for reasons to be explained below. Finally, a detailed investigation of a particular instance of grammatical change should advance our knowledge of grammatical change more widely.This change is put here into the wider context of reflexive marking, intended as the grammatical expressions of identity of arguments within the same clause. The range of relevant expressions includes the clitic pronoun as in il se lave 'he washes', the stressed pronoun as in Anne est fière d'elle 'Anne is proud of herself', and the stressed pronoun with même as in un égoïste ne pense qu'à soi-même 'an egoist thinks only of themselves'.

本研究旨在探讨法语回指系统的历时变化。它是围绕着古法语和现代法语中反身代词的使用之间的显着差异而建立的。在前者中，重读的反身代词“lui”广泛用于任何单数主语，例如devant louvoit ses enemis“他在自己面前看到了他的敌人”，而在后者中，人称代词lui或elle通常用于指代从句的主语（从句-mate回指），除了一些不定代词主语，如on“one”或chacun“everyone”。这一变化的深远理论影响尚未得到重视，也没有得到充分的描述。除了提供对语言历史的描述性见解外，对这一变化的详细研究对理论语言学中的一些当前问题也很重要。首先，回指系统的历时变化有助于我们进一步理解回指系统本身，特别是约束系统。第二，拟议的研究对目前讨论很多的特异性问题有非常特殊的影响，其原因将在下文解释。最后，对语法变化的一个具体实例的详细研究应该会使我们对语法变化的认识更加广泛，这种变化在这里被放在反身标记的更广泛的背景下，反身标记是同一从句中论元同一性的语法表达。相关表达的范围包括在il se lave中的附着代词“he washes”，在Anne est fière d 'elle中的重读代词“Anne is proud of herself”，以及在un égoïste ne pense qu' à soi-même中的重读代词“an egoist thinks only of themselves”。