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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2019  
         
  Article:   THE SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE IN THE CONTEXT OF A COMPARATIVE TYPOLOGY OF THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES / LES SPÉCIFICITÉS DE L’ÉVOLUTION DE LA LANGUE FRANÇAISE DANS LE CADRE D’UNE TYPOLOGIE LEXICALE COMPARÉE DES LANGUES ROMANES.

Authors:  LOUIS BEGIONI.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Specific Features of the Evolution of the French Language in the Context of a Comparative Typology of the Romance Languages. The article studies the ways in which words are constructed in French: they become increasingly compact and frequently end up as monosyllables. The written word behaves as a compacted unit and its oral counterpart tends to become morphologically unanalysable. The verb loses progressively its personal endings, which tends to make the link between its expression and its content more abstract. The relation in endocentric languages between verbs and nouns is shifted in French, which has become a typologically exocentric language, towards an opposition between a constructed alleviated lexicon and a more developed syntax, submitted to more strict and logical rules.

Keywords: lexical and syntactic typology, diachrony of Romance languages, comparative linguistics of Romance languages, French lexicology and syntax.
 
         
     
         
         
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