Écho des études romanes 2007, 3(1):55-62 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2007.005
La norme et la dynamique historiques - le cas de l’accord du participe passé après le verbe avoir en françaisFrench
- Université de Bohême du Sud, Èeské Budìjovice
Historical norm and dynamics ? The past participle agreement after the verb avoir
The aim of this paper is to analyze the rule of past participle agreement during the evolution of the French language. Our interest is not to dissert on the complication of the rule but to bring out the factors determining the dynamics of the realization of this agreement in the past. We try to show that these factors are of semantic, syntactic and phonetic nature. Moreover, the rule is an excellent example which allows us to demonstrate the consequences that a mature codification can have for the evolution of a language.
Keywords: French; avoir; past participle; agreement, rule
Published: June 11, 2007 Show citation
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