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On the Choice of the Auxiliary Verb in Old French (on the example of the verb ‘aller’)
- Authors: Solovieva M.V.1, Khutoretskaya O.A.1
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- St.Petersburg State University
- Issue: No 2(896) (2025)
- Pages: 67-74
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2542-2197/article/view/283997
- ID: 283997
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The aim of the work is to identify the inherent and discourse factors which determine the choice of the auxiliary verb in the building of analytical forms of non-terminative intransitive verb aller in Old French. The Ancien français corpus (which includes 75 different genres documents dating back to 1001–1299 with a total volume of 2,813,707 word-usages and is a part of the French Language Corpus Frantext) was used for the study. The language material was investigated with the help of the methods of contextual and etymological analysis. The analysis showed that the choice of the auxiliary verb is determined both by typological characteristics of the verb aller (non-terminativity, intransitivity), discourse factors (the presence of contextual hedges, the influence of the linguistic environment) and the genre of the text, its stylistic organization.
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Maria Vladimirovna Solovieva
St.Petersburg State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: m.solovieva@spbu.ru
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor, Associate Professor at the Department of Romance Philology
Russian FederationOlga Aleksandrovna Khutoretskaya
St.Petersburg State University
Email: o.khutoretskaya@spbu.ru
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor, Associate Professor at the Department of Romance Philology
Russian FederationReferences
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