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Article published In: Lingvisticæ Investigationes
Vol. 37:1 (2014) ► pp.156–180

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Le prédicat résultatif adjectival en français médiéval

 | Université de Toronto
 | Université de Montréal

Article language: French

Published online: 5 September 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/li.37.1.06tro
The goal of this article is to show that adjectival resultative secondary predication was a syntactic possibility in Medieval French. From a diachronic point of view, the presence of this construction is surprising given that it is attested neither in Latin nor in Modern French. From a typological point of view, the presence of adjectival resultative secondary predicates in Old French is somewhat expected given the presence of other resultative secondary predication constructions during that period. This study takes a predominantly descriptive point of view with the aim of contributing to our knowledge of this stage of the French language and its evolution with respect to other languages.
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