Rowlett, P 2007, 'The specifier–head relationship: negation and French subject proforms' , Transactions of the Philological Society, 105 (3) , pp. 339-364.
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Abstract
This article1 and the three others in this thematic collection are about heads and specifiers, the relationship between them, and how this relationship can change over time. A theme which emerges is the notion that the spec(ifier)–head relationship is cyclic, in other words, the synchronic relationship between the head and its specifier within a given phrase in a given language can be characterised as a location at a particular point on a cycle, while the diachronic development of the relationship can be seen as a directional stepwise shift around that cycle. The article is organised as follows. Section 2 introduces the theoretical framework. Section 3.1 sketches a well-known diachronic phenomenon – the history of sentential negation – which readily lends itself to an analysis in terms of a cyclic spec–head relationship, and shows how the stages in the cycle have been characterised theoretically. Section 3.2 considers another set of data − pre- and postverbal subject proforms in French − which is similarly suitable for such an approach. Section 4, finally, introduces the three other contributions to the collection.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Special issue: 'The specifier-head relationship' |
Themes: | Subjects / Themes > P Language and Literature > PB Modern languages. Celtic languages > PB0001 Modern languages Subjects / Themes > D History General and Old World > DC France Subjects / Themes > P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics Memory, Text and Place |
Schools: | Schools > School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences > Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Schools > School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences |
Journal or Publication Title: | Transactions of the Philological Society |
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
ISSN: | 00791636 |
Depositing User: | H Kenna |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2009 12:17 |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2022 08:05 |
URI: | https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/1357 |
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