Replication Data for: Les expressions spatiales en français médiéval: particules et formes préfixées en de-

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This dataset contains the raw data and the R scripts necessary to replicate all tables and figures in the cited publication. The raw data consists of manually-annotated plain-text concordances containing instances of five pairs of Old French spatial prepositions (ens/dedans, hors/dehors, avant/devant, arriere/derriere, sus/dessus). The concordances were initially extracted from the "Base de Français Médiéval" corpus (http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/).

(publication abstract): This paper compares the syntactic distribution of two separate series of spatial preposition-adverbs in medieval French: "base" forms descended directly from Latin adverbs and forms prefixed with de-. As both types of form may occur with a similar meaning either as prepositions or as adverbs, many grammars of Old French typically consider them to be free variants. However, on the basis of a detailed quantitative analysis of five pairs of forms across 1.4 million words of medieval French drawn from the Base de français médiéval corpus, I argue that the base forms are particles, being favoured in motion expressions and showing limited prepositional uses, while the de-prefixed forms, favoured in static contexts or as locative adjuncts, are best analysed as locative adverbs with secondary prepositional uses.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.18710/X5ZFXZ
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.46277/eliphi.2019.028.7
Metadata Access https://dataverse.no/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.18710/X5ZFXZ
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Creator Rainsford, Thomas ORCID logo
Publisher DataverseNO
Contributor Rainsford, Thomas; Universität Stuttgart; The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC0 1.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
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Contact Rainsford, Thomas (Universität Stuttgart)
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Resource Type Corpus data; Dataset
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Size 10248; 38092; 145338; 1710; 3238; 130473; 55781; 18451; 82867; 394452; 191770; 4428; 111842; 6659; 73757
Version 1.1
Discipline Humanities