Benoît Crabbé
List of John Benjamins publications in which Benoît Crabbé is involved.
Articles
2020 Text form and grammatical changes in Medieval French: A treebank-based diachronic study Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 95–128 | Chapter
This paper presents a treebank-based study of the effect the text form (prose vs. verse) has on the course of two grammatical changes in Medieval French: the loss of null subjects and the loss of OV word order. By means of statistical analysis, we demonstrate that naive estimates of the spread… read more
2018 Text form and grammatical changes in Medieval French: A treebank-based diachronic study Diachronic Treebanks, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 393–428 | Article
This paper presents a treebank-based study of the effect the text form (prose vs. verse) has on the course of two grammatical changes in Medieval French: the loss of null subjects and the loss of OV word order. By means of statistical analysis, we demonstrate that naive estimates of the spread… read more
2012 Prédire la position de l’adjectif épithète en français: Approche quantitative Lingvisticæ Investigationes 35:1, pp. 28–75 | Article
The paper provides a quantitative study (on the syntax) of the placement alternation for the adjective within the noun phrase in French. Taking the hypothesis that position constraints are mostly preferential as a starting point, we develop a methodology based on statistical inference in order to… read more