Vers une histoire des collocations. Recherches lexico-sémantiques et histoire des langues romanes
Towards a history of collocations. Lexico-semantic research and history of Romance languages

Author(s): Xavier Blanco
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: collocation; lexical function; old French; diachrony; intensifier
Summary/Abstract: We report on a project to catalogue and describe the collocations of literary texts from Old French as a first step for a diachronic study of collocations in the Romance languages. We give many examples of collocations by focusing on two structures: the comparatives in "comme N" and "plus que N" (with intensive meaning) and the adverbial construction "à N et à N" (with pejorative meaning).

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