Évolution sémantique des prépositions spatiales de l'ancien au moyen français

• Autores: Benjamin Fagard
• Localización: Linguisticae investigationes: Revue internationale de linguistique française et de linguistique générale, ISSN 0378-4169, Tome 25, Fascicule 2, 2002 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Grammaticalisation: le cas des prépositions locatives), págs. 311-338
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • The aim of this paper is to investigate a particular aspect of semantic change. Many theories have tried to capture the regularity in semantic change. In this respect, some linguists have claimed that space is the necessary starting point of any semantic development, and others have stated that space is situated at the same distance from the "semantic core" of a given lexeme as other semantic domains, such as time. I will formulate a partial answer to the question of the primacy of space. Using diachronic corpus data, I will examine prepositions in Old and Middle French (11th to 16th centuries). The prepositions I have focused on are vers, envers, devers, and pardevers, chosen from a wider corpus of prepositions (which I have studied in the same way) because of their semantic behavior, which is particularly complex, and which I try to explain here in detail.