Results 151 to 160 of about 3,965 (198)

V2 loss in Old French and Old Occitan

open access: closed, 2010
Traditional analyses of Old French as a verb-second (V2) language (e.g. Thurneysen 1892; Adams 1987) have recently been challenged by Kaiser 2002 and related work. At issue is the treatment of situations in which a particular initial non-subject element can participate in either V2 or V3 order.
Barbara S. Vance   +2 more
  +4 more sources

Introduction to Old Occitan

open access: closedThe Modern Language Review, 2000
Ruth Harvey, William D. Paden
openalex   +2 more sources

5 Jewish texts in Old Occitan

open access: closed, 2023
This chapter describes the presence of the Occitan vernacular in Jewish texts, mostly in the Middle Ages. Although the focus of this chapter is situated in the time before the expulsions out of the territories under French rule, a minor part is dedicated to Occitan written by Jews in early modern and modern times, due to the perpetuation of the Jewish ...
Cyril Aslanov
openalex   +2 more sources

Troubadours in Time: Remembering the Old Occitan Lyric in Catalonia

open access: closedFrench Studies, 2017
Abstract This article examines the reception of troubadour song in So fo e.l temps , a thirteenth-century Occitan narrative by Catalan author Raimon Vidal. While in this work the Limousin troubadours are revered as authorities, their lyrics and the mistaken reception of them are also subject to scrutiny ...
Emily Kate Price
openalex   +2 more sources

Discourse functions of subject left dislocation in Old Occitan

open access: closedJournal of Historical Pragmatics, 2015
This paper reports an empirical study of the discourse-pragmatic functions of subject left dislocation (LD) in Old Occitan. Data come from the complete troubadour biographies, in which the most common manifestation of subject LD is a nominal subject + sentence adverbsi + verb, as in “Bertrans de Born si fo uns castellans” [Bertran de Born was a ...
Bryan Donaldson
openalex   +2 more sources

Old Occitan as a Lyric Language: The Insertions from Occitan in Three Thirteenth-Century French Romances

open access: closedSpeculum, 1993
Sur les sources occitanes de l'ancien francais :pratique et declin d'insertions lyriques en vieil-occitan dans le Roman de la rose ou de Guillaume de Dole,le Roman de la Violette et La Court de Paradis.
William D. Paden
openalex   +2 more sources

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy