The decline of the French passé simple / / Emmanuelle Labeau.

• Superior document: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
• VerfasserIn: Labeau, Emmanuelle,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (498 pages)

"The disappearance of the French simple past has been hotly debated since the early 20th century. This volume offers an overview of its fortunes since French emerged as a language, provides a description of its distinctive features, and discusses the potential impact of its supposed demise on t...

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Language evolution
• Once upon a time ... there was the PS
• Favourable factors for PS use in contemporary French
• The not so simple PS
• Substitutes for PS in contemporary French
• Methodology for the corpus analysis
• The PS across modes in contemporary French
• The PS in micro-diachrony
• Conclusions.