Abstract
In recent years, within the cognitive linguistics approach there has been a trend of scholarly research committed to exploring the motivation for language change. The way in which people use language in communication, together with principles of human categorization, are the locus where language change and innovations are to be found. Interactional contexts in particular, seen as playing a crucial role in bringing about syntactic change (Traugott 2010b), have figured prominently in recent contributions on diachronic micro-changes, bringing to the fore the role played by dialogue as both the manifestation of the participants’ own voices and the realization of the constant negotiation that characterizes human communication. Against this background, this contribution focuses on a particular use of the Occitan post-verbal negator pas in negative rhetorical questions, which was very productive in fifteenth-century collections of religious theatrical texts. It is claimed that these dialogic contexts allowed a polyphonic use of pas, crucially restricted to this post-verbal negator, which is key to identifying the reasons behind the eventual establishment of pas as the generalized sentential negator in the modern language.
Note
This research was supported by an award from the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford (REF Strategic Support Fund), which provided financial resources for a research assistant, Alice Traisnel: to her go particular thanks, for painstakingly extracting the data on pas from the corpus. My gratitude also goes to Jacqueline Visconti, for pointing me in the direction of dialogic contexts, and to Martin Maiden, for his thought-provoking questions and observations.
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- Emilio Ridruejo (ed.), Manual de lingüística española (Manuals of Romance Linguistics, 14), Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2019, 697 p.
- Antonio Montefusco / Giuliano Milani (edd.), Le lettere di Dante. Ambienti culturali, contesti storici e circolazione dei saperi (Toscana bilingue. Storia sociale della traduzione medievale, 2), Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2020, X + 626 p.
- Paul Videsott / Ruth Videsott / Jan Casalicchio (edd.), Manuale di linguistica ladina, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter (Manuals of Romance Linguistics, 26) 2020, X + 588 p.
- Kurzanzeigen
- Nils Bahlo / Tabea Becker / Zeynep Kalkavan-Aydın / Netaya Lotze / Konstanze Marx / Christian Schwarz / Yazgül Şimşek, Jugendsprache. Eine Einführung, Berlin, Metzler, 2019, 241 p.
- N. S. Trubetzkoy, Principios de fonología, Nueva traducción y versión crítica de Esther Herrera Zendejas y Michael Herbert Knapp (Estudios de lingüística, 33), Ciudad de México, El Colegio de México, 2019, 478 p.
- Venetia Bridges (ed.),Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great. Transnational Texts in England and France (Studies in Medieval Romance, 20), Woodbridge, Brewer, 2018, xi + 307 p.
- David Murray, Poetry in Motion: Language and Lyrics in the European Middle Ages (Epitome musical), Turnhout, Brepols, 2019, 295 p.
- John C. Barnes / Daragh O’Connell (edd.), Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins (Publications of the UCD Foundation for Italian Studies), Dublin/Portland, Four Courts Press, 2017, 359 p.
- Raymund Wilhelm (ed.), La lauda su Giovanni Battista del codice Ambrosiano N 95 sup. Testo, lingua e tradizioni (Romanische Texte des Mittelalters – Editionen der Klagenfurter Sommerschule «Philologie romane et édition des textes», 2), Heidelberg, Winter, 2019, 178 p.
- Lino Leonardi / Caterina Menichetti / Sara Natale (edd.), Le traduzioni italiane della Bibbia nel Medioevo. Catalogo dei manoscritti (secoli XIII–XV), Firenze, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2018, 448 p. + 36 tavole
- Federico Aboaf, L’italiano di Machiavelli e Guicciardini in alcune traduzioni in latino, francese e tedesco del XVI secolo. Appunti per una storia del lessico politico (Strumenti di linguistica italiana. Nuova serie, 22), Firenze, Cesati, 2020, 240 p.
- Raphael Merida, La lingua della prosa sacra del Seicento (Italiana, 11), Pisa/Roma, Serra, 2018, 195 p.
- Guntram Plangg, Alte Flurnamen im Montafon 2: Gaschurn und St. Gallenkirch (Montafoner Schriftenreihe, 29), Schruns, Montafoner Museen, 2019, 317 p.
- Nachruf
- Germà Colón Domènech (30 novembre 1928–22 mars 2020)
- Literaturhinweise 2020 (Stand: 31. Juli 2020)