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Chapter 10. An emerging final particle

The case of quoi ‘what’ in French

Abstract

Turn-taking is one of the contexts leading to innovative language use. In this article, I will explore the relationship between the emergence of grammatical patterns and intersubjectivity. Final particles belong to the category of linguistic expressions that generate the production of interactional grammar. After reviewing the various meanings of final quoi in French dictionaries, I will test the five principles of grammaticalization, namely layering, divergence, specialization, persistence and decategorization and I will try to show that the evolution of the particle cannot be restricted to the grammaticalization process.

Abstract

Turn-taking is one of the contexts leading to innovative language use. In this article, I will explore the relationship between the emergence of grammatical patterns and intersubjectivity. Final particles belong to the category of linguistic expressions that generate the production of interactional grammar. After reviewing the various meanings of final quoi in French dictionaries, I will test the five principles of grammaticalization, namely layering, divergence, specialization, persistence and decategorization and I will try to show that the evolution of the particle cannot be restricted to the grammaticalization process.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Section I. Diachronic approaches
  5. Chapter 1. From comparative standard marker to comparative adverb 20
  6. Chapter 2. From fear to reason 50
  7. Chapter 3. - maɾa in Mara 74
  8. Section II. Synchronic approaches
  9. Chapter 4. Tracking Jespersen’s cycle in Veronese and Bresciano 104
  10. Chapter 5. Could be, might be, maybe 124
  11. Chapter 6. The final-appendage construction in Japanese and Korean 147
  12. Chapter 7. New perspectives on phonological erosion as an aspect of grammaticalization 176
  13. Section III. Interactive contexts
  14. Chapter 8. On the development of discourse markers from elliptical structures 198
  15. Chapter 9. On the grammaticalization of ideophones 237
  16. Chapter 10. An emerging final particle 263
  17. Index 283
Different Slants on Grammaticalization
This chapter is in the book Different Slants on Grammaticalization
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.232.10han

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Section I. Diachronic approaches
  5. Chapter 1. From comparative standard marker to comparative adverb 20
  6. Chapter 2. From fear to reason 50
  7. Chapter 3. - maɾa in Mara 74
  8. Section II. Synchronic approaches
  9. Chapter 4. Tracking Jespersen’s cycle in Veronese and Bresciano 104
  10. Chapter 5. Could be, might be, maybe 124
  11. Chapter 6. The final-appendage construction in Japanese and Korean 147
  12. Chapter 7. New perspectives on phonological erosion as an aspect of grammaticalization 176
  13. Section III. Interactive contexts
  14. Chapter 8. On the development of discourse markers from elliptical structures 198
  15. Chapter 9. On the grammaticalization of ideophones 237
  16. Chapter 10. An emerging final particle 263
  17. Index 283
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