A Study Concerning the Latin Origins of French Causatives

This study centers on three areas of investigation concerning the French causative construction faire faire quelque chose a quelqu'un: (1) the evolution of the Latin causative structure from the ut-sentential to the accusativus-cum-infinitivo; (2) the presence of the dative semantic agent of the infinitive in both the Latin and the French causatives; (3) the generalization of a monoclausal, impermeable syntactic faire-infinitive structure in modern French in place of the biclausal (accusativus-cum-infinitivo) structure observed in earlier stages of the language. In an attempt to define chronologically the development of the syntactic and semantic features of the causative construction in proto-Romance, this study offers a detailed examination of a corpus of Vulgar Latin and Old French documents with an eye toward establishing numerical indices of the various overlapping stages in the development of the above-mentioned characteristics of the causative construction.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

French

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Chamberlain, Jeffrey Thomas

• Language, Linguistics

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8302824

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71030