1st Edition
From Lexicon to Grammatical Paradigms The Evolution of VOIR in French
By Kirsten A. Jeppesen Kragh
Copyright 2027
382 Pages
55 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book explores the grammaticalization of the French verb voir (‘to see’) and its derived forms (voici, voilà), offering new insights into how lexical entities integrate into grammatical paradigms.
Through diachronic and synchronic corpus analysis, the study traces the evolution of voir into diverse paradigms, including verbal categories (aspect, mood, and voice), pragmatic markers... Read more
1. Introduction, 2. Theoretical scope, 3. Lexical Level, 4. Voir in the paradigm of progression, 5. Voir in the paradigms of presentation and focalization, 6. Voir in the paradigm of discourse markers, 7. Voir in the paradigm of voice, 8. Voir in the paradigm of prepositions, 9. Voir in the paradigm of conjunctions, 10. Concluding remarks, Appendix, References, Index
Biography
Kirsten A. Jeppesen Kragh is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
