On expletive subject pronoun drop in Colloquial French

Zimmermann, Michael; Kaiser, Georg A.

On expletive subject pronoun drop in Colloquial French

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2014

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Journal of French Language Studies. 2014, 24(01), pp. 107-126. ISSN 0959-2695. eISSN 1474-0079. Available under: doi: 10.1017/S0959269513000392

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This paper sets out to contribute to the debate on the morpho-syntactic status of phonologically weak or clitic subject pronouns in Colloquial French by discussing finite impersonal constructions in which the expletive subject pronoun is non expressed. The paper provides arguments against an approach in terms of inflectional affixes, showing that the non-expression of this pronoun is in fact syntactically restricted. On the basis of the further finding that the non-expression of the expletive represents the continuation of a grammatical trait of older stages of the language in which the non-expression of subject pronouns was generally possible, a tentative proposal is put forward which crucially draws on information structure.

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440 Französisch, romanische Sprachen allgemein

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Colloquial French, Null subjects, Impersonal pronouns

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ZIMMERMANN, Michael, Georg A. KAISER, 2014. On expletive subject pronoun drop in Colloquial French. In: Journal of French Language Studies. 2014, 24(01), pp. 107-126. ISSN 0959-2695. eISSN 1474-0079. Available under: doi: 10.1017/S0959269513000392

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@article{Zimmermann2014exple-25675,
  year={2014},
  doi={10.1017/S0959269513000392},
  title={On expletive subject pronoun drop in Colloquial French},
  number={01},
  volume={24},
  issn={0959-2695},
  journal={Journal of French Language Studies},
  pages={107--126},
  author={Zimmermann, Michael and Kaiser, Georg A.}
}

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