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Résumé
The factitive construction faire faire quelque chose a quelqu'un, a central problem in French syntax, differs in structure from its counterpart in Classical Latin, which typically expressed causation by means of a subordinate clause with its verb in the subjunctive. This examination of causative constructions in representative Late Latin and Old French texts offers evidence that the infinitive construction characteristic of the Romance languages in fact originated in Latin and was widespread by the sixth century. Additional syntactic features of the causative in French, however, including the generalization of the indirect object a quelqu'un and the fusion of faire with its dependent infinitive, are shown to be Romance developments that are not generalized in French until the fifteenth century.
Détails de l'édition
- ISBN-13
- 9780820402581
- ISBN-10
- 0820402583
- EAN
- 9780820402581
- Éditeur
- P. Lang (New York)
- Date de publication
- 1 janvier 1986
- Langue
- en
- Pages
- 181
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
Provenance des données
- dimensions BnF Catalogue général · 23 juillet 2026
- language Google Books · 22 septembre 2026
- page_count BnF Catalogue général · 23 juillet 2026
- publication_date BnF Catalogue général · 23 juillet 2026
- summary Google Books · 22 septembre 2026
- title Google Books · 22 septembre 2026