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From il s’envole hors to il sort du nid

A typological change in French motion expressions

Abstract

In this chapter, I describe the evolution from Latin to French, focusing on a specific typological change: that from a Satellite-framed to a Verb-framed language, in the (much debated) dichotomy established by Talmy (1985). The goal of the paper is to describe in detail the loss, between Medieval and Modern French, of one important feature of Satellite-framed languages: Satellites. In order to do this, I rely on a quantitative and qualitative diachronic corpus study of a series of adverbs with particle uses in Medieval French, following their decline throughout the diachrony of French. I describe the uses of these adverbs and their gradual disappearance, which has left room for other spatial grams, mainly adpositions.

Abstract

In this chapter, I describe the evolution from Latin to French, focusing on a specific typological change: that from a Satellite-framed to a Verb-framed language, in the (much debated) dichotomy established by Talmy (1985). The goal of the paper is to describe in detail the loss, between Medieval and Modern French, of one important feature of Satellite-framed languages: Satellites. In order to do this, I rely on a quantitative and qualitative diachronic corpus study of a series of adverbs with particle uses in Medieval French, following their decline throughout the diachrony of French. I describe the uses of these adverbs and their gradual disappearance, which has left room for other spatial grams, mainly adpositions.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors vii
  4. Acknowledgments ix
  5. Recent advances in the study of motion in French 1
  6. Part I. Arguments, modifiers, asymmetry of motion
  7. About asymmetry of motion in French 31
  8. French motion verbs 67
  9. From il s’envole hors to il sort du nid 109
  10. Part II. Manner of motion and fictive motion
  11. Manner as a cluster concept 141
  12. Motion verbs and evaluative morphology 179
  13. Fictive motion in French 217
  14. Part III. Psycholinguistic issues
  15. Casting an eye on motion events 249
  16. Structure of French expression of motion 289
  17. Part IV. Formal and computational aspects of motion-based narrations
  18. A computational account of virtual travelers in the Montagovian generative lexicon 323
  19. Geoparsing and geocoding places in a dynamic space context 353
  20. Subject index 387
The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French
This chapter is in the book The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.66.03fag

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors vii
  4. Acknowledgments ix
  5. Recent advances in the study of motion in French 1
  6. Part I. Arguments, modifiers, asymmetry of motion
  7. About asymmetry of motion in French 31
  8. French motion verbs 67
  9. From il s’envole hors to il sort du nid 109
  10. Part II. Manner of motion and fictive motion
  11. Manner as a cluster concept 141
  12. Motion verbs and evaluative morphology 179
  13. Fictive motion in French 217
  14. Part III. Psycholinguistic issues
  15. Casting an eye on motion events 249
  16. Structure of French expression of motion 289
  17. Part IV. Formal and computational aspects of motion-based narrations
  18. A computational account of virtual travelers in the Montagovian generative lexicon 323
  19. Geoparsing and geocoding places in a dynamic space context 353
  20. Subject index 387
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