An Accessibility hierarchy pattern for Resumptive pronouns in spoken French

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Campo DC	Valore
dc.identifier	ECF_article_12895
dc.title	An Accessibility hierarchy pattern for Resumptive pronouns in spoken French
dc.contributor.author	Donati Caterina
dc.contributor.author	Su Peijia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2023/57/an-accessibility-hierarchy-pattern-for-resumptive/
dc.description.abstract	On the basis of the results of a corpus study on Colloquial French, which show that the distribution of resumptive pronouns globally matches the Accessibility Hierarchy (Keenan, Comrie 1977), we argue that resumptive pronouns in French relative clauses are not intrusive and that resumptive and gapped relatives involve different syntactic derivations belonging to different registers. We explain the lack of the highest subject restriction in Colloquial French, in contrast with (other) languages displaying regular resumptive relatives, by the special nature of French subject clitics as agreement markers (Culbertson 2010). This conclusion and the distribution of subject clitics we found in the corpus reinforces the analysis of the relative complementizer qui as a grammaticalized form of que+obligatory resumption il (Rooryck 2000; Rizzi, Shlonsky 2007).
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 57 \| Settembre 2023
dc.issued	2023-10-30
dc.dateAccepted	2023-06-11
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-04-13
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-1562
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2023/11/005
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Accessibility hierarchy
dc.subject	Corpus
dc.subject	Relative clauses
dc.subject	Resumptive pronouns
dc.subject	Spoken French

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Peijia Su Université Paris Cité, France

Caterina Donati Laboratoire Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris citée

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abstract

On the basis of the results of a corpus study on Colloquial French, which show that the distribution of resumptive pronouns globally matches the Accessibility Hierarchy (Keenan, Comrie 1977), we argue that resumptive pronouns in French relative clauses are not intrusive and that resumptive and gapped relatives involve different syntactic derivations belonging to different registers. We explain the lack of the highest subject restriction in Colloquial French, in contrast with (other) languages displaying regular resumptive relatives, by the special nature of French subject clitics as agreement markers (Culbertson 2010). This conclusion and the distribution of subject clitics we found in the corpus reinforces the analysis of the relative complementizer qui as a grammaticalized form of que+obligatory resumption il (Rooryck 2000; Rizzi, Shlonsky 2007).

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30 Ottobre 2023

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11 Giugno 2023

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13 Aprile 2023

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Keywords: Resumptive pronouns • Spoken French • Corpus • Accessibility hierarchy • Relative clauses

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2023/11/005

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