Micro-cues der Sprachevolution: ein multi-faktorielles Modell zum Verlust von V2 in der Zentralromania

• Antragstellerin: Professorin Dr. Cecilia Poletto
• Fachliche Zuordnung: Angewandte Sprachwissenschaften, Computerlinguistik
• Förderung: Förderung von 2020 bis 2024
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 449439301

• Erstellungsjahr: 2024

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

The MICLE Franco-German project proposes a new framework for the understanding of grammatical evolution by studying “micro-cues” of change in calibrated corpora, the Multifactorial Model. The project tested this framework on the analysis of the loss of Verb Second (V2) in Old Norman French and Old Venetian. Concretely, the MICLE project had four objectives: - O1. Explaining the loss of V2 in Central Romance through the systematic analysis of the rate of use and distribution of V2 instantiations in two closely related languages. - O2. Establishing the role of micro-cues by identifying and weighing co-determinant factors thought to account for changes of rates, distribution and productivity of the different instantiations of V2. - O3. Developing a corpus of strictly comparable data controlling for text type and regional variants by assembling calibrated data from the same textual type and the same regions at every quarter of century from the earliest period to the 16th century. - O4. Shifting methodological and conceptual perspectives on grammatical change by disseminating the benefits of a Multifactorial Model applied to calibrated data. The creation of the calibrated corpus (O3) played a determining role in the achievement of the theoretical objectives (O1 and O2). The construction of the bilingual, calibrated, syntactically-annotated corpus engaged the coordinated effort of the team for the first two years of this project. A final version of the MICLE-French corpus was made public at the end of May 2024, whereas the MICLE-Venetian corpus will be made available via the same channels after a 12-month embargo (summer 2025) due to ongoing publications. Advancement well beyond the expected benchmarks has been achieved in the dissemination programme through 18 publications, 26 conference presentations, 2 international workshop and 1 conference (O4). On the theoretical level, the project showed how French and Venetian, while differing with respect to the stage of the V2 phenomenology (French being more advanced in its loss), show strong solidarity between the micro-cues for V2 (V position, presence of postverbal subjects, null subjects, and enclisis). All micro-cues – analysed considering their degree of asymmetrical distribution between main and subordinate clauses, a novel methodology – co-vary in the texts of our corpus. Testing the typology of XPs preceding the finite verb in V2 main clauses provided additional support. The work has been successfully extended to other corpora, which allow for further statistical testing of the correlations (Larrivée et al., in preparation). In parallel, the project analysed other V2-related phenomena via the new corpus: (i) infinitival and past participle fronting, both as a new cue identifying the type of V2 and as an empirical probe for further theoretical advancements; (ii) pronominal and non-pronominal postverbal subjects in Venetian; (iii) postverbal nominal subjects through text types in French; (iv) the distribution of null subjects in French and Venetian.

Projektbezogene Publikationen (Auswahl)

• 16/09/21. Triangulations. PenB 2021: Workshop Pour une histoire de la langue par en bas: textes privés et variation des langues dans le passé Paris, University of Paris 3
  Pierre Larrivée
  
• 01/12/22. Universal 20 restriction reloaded: the view from Old Italo-Romance. GR 2022: Conference Going Romance 2022 Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. (Poster presentation)
  Tommaso Balsemin, Francesco Pinzin & Cecilia Poletto
  
• 1-5/08/22. Micro-cues and language change: There’s a quantitative correlation between V2 and particle si in (nonliterary) Medieval French. ICHL 2022: 25e International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Oxford, University of Oxford
  Pierre Larrivée
  
• 11/02/22. MICLE corpus and workflow showcase. Online workshop
  Mathieu Goux, Francesco Pinzin & Pierre Larrivée
  
• 12/10/22. First Steps towards lemmatisation of Anglo- Norman. Online
  Natasha Romanova & Rayan Ziane
  
• 13/10/22. Antéposition stylistique de l’infinitif et du participe dans l’histoire du français. DiaLon 2022: Conference La constitution de corpus en diachronie longue : méthodologies, objectifs et exploitations linguistiques et stylistiques Grenoble, University of Grenoble
  Mathieu Goux & Pierre Larrivée
  
• 13/10/22. Enjeux des corpus multilingues en diachronie longue : l’exemple du projet MICLE. Conference La constitution de corpus en diachronie longue : méthodologies, objectifs et exploitations linguistiques et stylistiques, University of Grenoble
  Mathieu Goux
  
• 14/09/22.What’s left of the V2 high tide: Infinitival Anteposition. CIDSM 2022: Conference 16th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax- Morphology Meeting Napoli, University of Naples
  Francesco Pinzin & Cecilia Poletto
  
• 17/11/22. On Deriving the Consistency Principle in Old Italo-Romance. (Keynote lecture) Oxford 2022: Workshop Mapping Syntax Oxford, University of Oxford
  Cecilia Poletto
  
• 18/06/22. Ordre des mots, changement syntaxique et micro-indicateurs dans deux langues romanes. SLP 2022: Conference of the Société de Linguistique de Paris Online
  Pierre Larrivée & Cecilia Poletto
  
• 21/10/22. MICLE and High-Tech digitisation and annotation workflows. Online
  Members of the MICLE & High-Tech projects
  
• 24/02/22. Infinitival Modal Inversion: A Preliminary Study of Three Old Venetian Texts. GRaVO 2022: Conference of the project Grammatica del Veneto elle Origini Padova, University of Padua and online
  Francesco Pinzin & Cecilia Poletto
  
• 29/05/22. MICLE Project: theoretical goals and methodological considerations. Ven&Fr 2022: Conference Venise et la France: Similitudes, Spécificités, Interrelations Lausanne, University of Lausanne and online
  Mathieu Goux & Francesco Pinzin
  
• Is Medieval French diglossic? New evidence on remnant V2 and register. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 8(2), 1-16.
  Larrivée, Pierre
  
• La diachronie longue dans un corpus homogène: le cas des constructions V2. Studia Linguistica Romanica 8, 71-86
  Larrivée, P.
  
• 06/07/2023. Vers l'intégration des outils d'annotation syntaxique : proposition d'une chaîne de traitement pour faciliter l'adoption et l'accès aux technologies d'apprentissage automatique. Journées de Linguistique de Corpus, University of Grenoble
  Natasha Romanova & Rayan Ziane
  
• 08/06/2023. En dialogue avec les outils d’apprentissage automatique : une chaîne de traitement pour l’annotation syntaxique. Study day Recherche linguistique appliquée à des pratiques et à la production de ressources électroniques CRISCO, University of Caen
  Rayan Ziane & Manon Lavergne
  
• 10/03/2023. Economy and verb movement: the diachronic perspective. DGfS 2023: Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft 2023 Cologne, Universität zu Köln
  Francesco Pinzin & Cecilia Poletto
  
• 11/04/2023. La chaîne de traitement H-T_CRISCO (annotation syntaxique, lemmatisation). Pôle document numérique workshop, MRSH Unicaen
  Mathieu Goux, Natasha Romanova & Rayan Ziane
  
• 16/11/2023. La pragmatique d’interrogatives totales marquées dans la diachronie du français. RomBul 2023: Cent ans d’études romanes en Bulgarie: legs et (dis)continuité: Colloque international d’études romanes, Sofia
  Pierre Larrivée
  
• 17/02/2023. Les corpus MICLE & High-Tech : Constitution et exploration. Online workshop
  Mathieu Goux
  
• 20- 21/11/2023. Workshops Corpus Diachronique (transcription, annotation and exploration), St Clement of Ohrid University, Sofia
  Natasha Romanova & Pierre Larrivée
  
• 22/06/2023. Corpus calibrés pour l’histoire de la langue français (CONDE, MICLE, High-Tech). Study day Édition numérique, LARHRA, Lyon
  Pierre Larrivée & Natasha Romanova
  
• 24/03/2023. Antéposition stylistique de l’infinitif et du participe dans l’histoire du français. SIDF 2023: Colloque de la Société Internationale de Diachronie du Français (SIDF) München
  Pierre Larrivée & Mathieu Goux
  
• 26-30/06/ 2023. Are French and Venetian V2 languages? A diachronic treebank analysis. LSRL 2023: Conference 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages Paris, INALCO, Université Paris Cité, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Université Paris Saclay
  Cecilia Poletto, Pierre Larrivée, Francesco Pinzin & Mathieu Goux
  
• 4-8/09/2023. Learning how to count -- a treebank analysis of V2 word order in two Medieval Romance languages through time. ICHL 2023: 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg
  Cecilia Poletto, Pierre Larrivée, Francesco Pinzin & Mathieu Goux
  
• 5-7/07/2023. Where do we start from? Deriving the consistency principle from basic OV order. DiGS 2023: Diachronic Generative Syntax 24 Paris, University Paris Cité
  Tommaso Balsemin, Francesco Pinzin & Cecilia Poletto
  
• A Multifactorial Approach to Word-Order Change. Special issue of the Journal of Historical Syntax 7
  Poletto C. & Larrivée P.
  
• 07/06/2024. Corpus Search workshop. Online workshop
  Francesco Pinzin
  
• 08/02/2024. La chaîne de traitement H-T_CRISCO (annotation syntaxique, lemmatisation). University of Grenoble
  Natasha Romanova & Rayan Ziane
  
• 08/03/2024. Contact oïl-oc : le cas des textes légaux. GEHLF 2024: (Groupe d’étude de l’histoire de langue française) seminar Paris
  Pierre Larrivée
  
• 18/04/2024. How genre affects word order: A diachronic analysis of French. Padova 2024: University of Padova Linguistics Seminars Padova, Università degli studi di Padova
  Francesco Pinzin
  
• 24/05/2024. Les mots du discours dans les textes légaux. Parcours de l’ancien français au français moderne. DIACHRO 2024: Le français en diachronie. Madrid, Complutense University
  Mathieu Goux & Pierre Larrivée
  
• 28/03/2024. How genre affects word order: a diachronic analysis of French. Caen 2023: “Tracing the Curve of Linguistic Evolution” Caen, University of Caen
  Francesco Pinzin & Mathieu Goux
  
• 29/03/2024. CRISCO Diachronic Corpora, MICLE-Fr, HIGH-Tech, AUTOMATED projects Tracing the Curve of Linguistic Evolution Conference University of Caen
  Pierre Larrivée
  
• 29/03/2024. Is Middle French a partial null subject language?. Caen 2023: Tracing the Curve of Linguistic Evolution, Caen, University of Caen
  Pierre Larrivée
  
• 29/03/2024. MICLE Old Venetian Corpus. Tracing the Curve of Linguistic Evolution, Conference University of Caen
  Francesco Pinzin
  
• 4-6/12/2024. How genre affects word order: a diachronic analysis of French (13th- 16th c.). GR 2024 2: Conference Going Romance 2024 Braga, Universitade do Minho
  Francesco Pinzin & Mathieu Goux
  
• 4-6/12/2024. Parallel phases reloaded: statistical evidence in Old French. GR 2024 1: Conference Going Romance 2024 Braga, Universitade do Minho
  Francesco Pinzin, Papa Hamatt Touré, Cecilia Poletto, Pierre Larrivée & Natalia Romanova
  
• Asymmetry as a general cue for V2 (loss). Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 10(7), 1-22.
  Larrivée, Pierre; Poletto, Cecilia; Pinzin, Francesco & Goux, Mathieu
  
• Challenges of a Multilingual Corpus (Old French/Old Venetian): The Example of the MICLE project. Venise et la France. Similitudes, spécificités, interrelations. Ed. by Castro E., Della Fontana A. & Pezzini E., Franco Cesati
  Goux, M. & Pinzin F.
  
• Croiser les corpus calibrés pour faire l’histoire de la langue : le cas de l’antéposition stylistique de l’infinitif et du participe. Corpus(25).
  Larrivée, Pierre & Goux, Mathieu
  
• Enjeux des corpus bilingues en diachronie longue : l’exemple du projet MICLE. Corpus(25).
  Goux, Mathieu
  
• L’évolution de l’expression du sujet impersonnel dans l’histoire du français. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris
  Larrivée, P. & Pinzin F.
  
• The evolution of bare nouns in the history of French. The view from calibrated corpora. Journal of French Language Studies, 34(3), 323-350.
  Larrivée, Pierre & Goux, Mathieu
  
• Universal 20 restriction reloaded. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 10(3).
  Balsemin, Tommaso; Pinzin, Francesco & Poletto, Cecilia
  
• A long farewell. Diachronica, 42(5), 594-645.
  Poletto, Cecilia; Larrivée, Pierre; Pinzin, Francesco & Goux, Mathieu
  
• On postverbal subjects in Old Venetian. Linguistic Variation, 26(1), 132-152.
  Pinzin, Francesco & Poletto, Cecilia