MAIN TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FRENCH SENTENCE SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE IN THE PRECLASSICAL PERIOD (XIV–XVI)

Authors

  • Olga Alexandrovna Turbina South Ural State University

Keywords:

classical French sentence, grammatical categories, word order, predicative centre, position of the subject, positions of objects (direct, indirect, adverbial)), position of the verb.

Abstract

The article gives an outline of the research results of the main trends in the development
of the French sentence syntactic structure in the preclassical period – up to the
XVIIth century. The author analyzes the simple sentence and reveals the processes of formation
of its structural invariants and grammatical categories. The material for the analysis
is French prose of the XIV–XVIth centuries.

Author Biography

Olga Alexandrovna Turbina, South Ural State University

Ph.D., professor, head of the General Linguistics Department, South Ural State University
(Chelyabinsk), toa@susu.ac.ru.

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Issue

Vol. 11 No. 4 (2014)

Section

Articles