Anne Carlier

Céline Guillot-Barbance

Even though a rich written tradition documents the evolution from Latin to French, the crucial transition from Late Latin to Old French in the oral language remains partially obscure. Thanks to a corpus-based approach and the collaboration of Latinists and French historians, this edited volume sheds a new light on this «missing link».

Continuités et ruptures

Latin tardif, français ancien

Jean-Christophe Verstraete

This volume, the fifth in the series Case and Grammatical Relations across Languages, is devoted to genitive constructions in a range of Indo-European languages (Russian, French, Romanian, German and Swedish), as well as Finnish, Bantu languages and Northern Akhvakh (Northeast Caucasian). Definitions of genitives typically start out from the notion of an inflectional marker, often suffixal, that marks dependency relations of a noun phrase with respect to another noun phrase and conveys possessive meaning. The contributions in this volume demonstrate a huge range of variation in genitives, semantically (from possessive meaning to generalized dependency), morphologically (from affixes to different types of clitics) and syntactically (from adnominal uses to argument relations and adjunct uses). The volume contains both general surveys of genitives and case studies of the semantics, pragmatics and historical development of specific genitive constructions. It will be of interest to scholars and students in syntax, semantics, morphology, typology, and historical linguistics.

The Genitive

Even though a rich written tradition documents the evolution from Latin to French, the crucial transition from Late Latin to Old French in the oral language remains partially obscure. Thanks to a corpus-based approach and the collaboration of Latinists and French historians, this edited volume sheds a new light on this missing link.

Anne Carlier

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