De la transcatégorisation de CE en français médiéval : une histoire de vases communicants ?

Abstract

The study describes a set of configurations in which CE (translated variously « this », « that » or « it ») is absent or present in the testimonials of the ancient language and compares them to the achievements of the contemporary language in order to draw the history of these constructions and to show the changes in the CE status. At the end of the study, the invariant CE appears as a perfect example of the transcategorisation phenomenon.

Keywords

• transcategorisation
• relative clause
• adverbial clause
• complement clause
• subject clause
• incidental interrogatives
• quotative frames