Expletive and Referential Subject Pronouns in Medieval French
French language sähkökirjat Linguistics and Semiotics Literary Studies FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
De Gruyter
2014
EISBN 9783110394306
This book is an empirical study on the expression of subject pronouns in Medieval French, usually analyzed as a null subject language. In light of the frequent expression of expletives, i.e. subject pronouns in impersonal constructions, as well as of referentials, it is argued that rather than from a null subject property, the non-expression of subject pronouns generally follows from conditions pertaining to left-peripheral focalization.
