‘E sí la hoïren tots’: sí and emphatic positive polarity in Old Catalan

This paper explores the semantic value and syntactic distribution of the lexical item sí in Old Catalan. After examining data extracted from El Llibre dels Fets, a 13th century chronicle, it is concluded that sí was an Emphatic Positive Polarity Particle (EPPA) whose appearance was restricted to non...

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Autor principal:	Afra Pujol Campeny
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2020
Materias:	Positive Polarity sí Old Catalan grammaticalisation Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6ab28e561a3f4ee681068f14fa9d6dcf2021-11-25T11:16:35Z‘E sí la hoïren tots’: sí and emphatic positive polarity in Old Catalan2385-4138https://doaj.org/article/6ab28e561a3f4ee681068f14fa9d6dcf2020-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.es/isogloss/isogloss/article/view/73https://doaj.org/toc/2385-4138This paper explores the semantic value and syntactic distribution of the lexical item sí in Old Catalan. After examining data extracted from El Llibre dels Fets, a 13th century chronicle, it is concluded that sí was an Emphatic Positive Polarity Particle (EPPA) whose appearance was restricted to non-veridical contexts already in this period. This finding strongly contrasts with analyses put forward for sí in Old Catalan and Old Spanish, that date its grammaticalization as an (EPPA) two centuries later, and with analyses of sí in other Old Romance languages, where it has been linked to the satisfaction of the V2 parameter.Afra Pujol CampenyUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticlePositive PolaritysíOld CatalangrammaticalisationRomanic languagesPC1-5498Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENIsogloss, Vol 5 (2020)
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topic	Positive Polarity sí Old Catalan grammaticalisation Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	Positive Polarity sí Old Catalan grammaticalisation Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Afra Pujol Campeny ‘E sí la hoïren tots’: sí and emphatic positive polarity in Old Catalan
description	This paper explores the semantic value and syntactic distribution of the lexical item sí in Old Catalan. After examining data extracted from El Llibre dels Fets, a 13th century chronicle, it is concluded that sí was an Emphatic Positive Polarity Particle (EPPA) whose appearance was restricted to non-veridical contexts already in this period. This finding strongly contrasts with analyses put forward for sí in Old Catalan and Old Spanish, that date its grammaticalization as an (EPPA) two centuries later, and with analyses of sí in other Old Romance languages, where it has been linked to the satisfaction of the V2 parameter.
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title	‘E sí la hoïren tots’: sí and emphatic positive polarity in Old Catalan
title_short	‘E sí la hoïren tots’: sí and emphatic positive polarity in Old Catalan
title_full	‘E sí la hoïren tots’: sí and emphatic positive polarity in Old Catalan
title_fullStr	‘E sí la hoïren tots’: sí and emphatic positive polarity in Old Catalan
title_full_unstemmed	‘E sí la hoïren tots’: sí and emphatic positive polarity in Old Catalan
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‘E sí la hoïren tots’: sí and emphatic positive polarity in Old Catalan

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