On the two French subjectless verbs voici and voila  

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Morin, Yves-Charles

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 61 no. 4 (Dec. 1985), page 777-820.
Fulltext: ON THE TWO FRENCH SUBJECTLESS VERBS VOICI AND VOILA.pdf (1,022.85KB)

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The much-debated syntactic status of voici 'here is' and voila'(t)here is' in French relates principally to the status of syntactic categories and of grammatical subject. The first issue can be properly addressed only if one accepts a minimal theory of constituent structure. The surface distribution of voici/voila then shows that they are two subjectless finite verbs with a single tense and mood: present indicative. Not surprisingly, they have lost some of these exceptional characterisitics in certain dialects of French: they have acquired a personal conjugation in Quebec French, and new tenses in Walloon and Franco-Provencal. These facts are relevant to syntactic theories which require all basic sentences to have grammatical subjects at some level of analysis, since no independent parameter is available to account for the systematic absence of surface subjects before a small set verbs in a non-'PRO-drop' language like French.*

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