E portava-li hom ·i· pali d'aur pèrdua i supervivència d'un pronom impersonal
Many Romance and German languages have indefinite pronouns stemming from common nouns denoting the human being. These pronouns (Swedish man; German man; Abruzzese nome; French, on; Catalan hom; Old Spanish omne) may have a generic or an existential interpretation and therefore compete with other mor...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | catalán |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:304296 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/304296 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Indefinite pronouns Grammaticalization Formal features Paraules clau Pronoms indefinits Gramaticalització Trets formals |
| Sumario: | Many Romance and German languages have indefinite pronouns stemming from common nouns denoting the human being. These pronouns (Swedish man; German man; Abruzzese nome; French, on; Catalan hom; Old Spanish omne) may have a generic or an existential interpretation and therefore compete with other morphosyntactic resources to express impersonal meaning. Moreover, they exhibit an intriguing contrast. In some languages the indefinite pronoun has survived until present, whereas in others it disappeared around the XVIIth C. We concentrate on Catalan and we focalize on the grammaticalization of hom. We conclude that external factors such as the competition between impersonal structures and the speech traditions on the other have to be taken into account. |
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