Modus po verbech opinandi v (před)klasické francouzštině: kvantitativní analýza

• Authors: Lipská Karolína

Title variants

EN

Mood in Subordinate Clauses after Verba Opinandi in (Pre-)Classical French: A Quantitative Analysis

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the development in the usage of verbal moods following verba opinandi in preclassical and classical French. An evident change in mood usage following these verbs had taken place in the 17th century, namely a decline of the subjunctive in favour of the indicative, which became the norm in affirmative sentences by the end of the century. The aim was to verify theoretical information from old and historical grammars on the evidence of authentic texts in FRANTEXT, a set of French diachronic corpora. This research enabled the derivation of statistics to identify a turning point in the development, which appears to be around the year 1640. It also revealed distinctions between different sentence types in respect of the indicative/subjunctive ratio. Whereas affirmative sentences tend towards the indicative as the only possible mode, the subjunctive is retained in negations, questions and conditionals, since these sentence types exhibit a more negative epistemic modality, typically expressed with the subjunctive.

Keywords

CS

předklasická francouzština; klasická francouzština; indikativ; subjunktiv; verbum opinandi; vývoj jazyka; periodizace

EN

pre-classical French; classical French; indicative; subjunctive; verbum opinandi; development of a language; periodization

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 100
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 191-205

Contributors

author

Lipská Karolína

• Ústav románských studií, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy