Benoît Crabbé
List of John Benjamins publications for which Benoît Crabbé plays a role.
Articles
2020. Text form and grammatical changes in Medieval French: A treebank-based diachronic study. Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 95–128
This paper presents a treebank-based study of the effect the text form (prose vs. verse) has on the course of two grammatical changes in Medieval French: the loss of null subjects and the loss of OV word order. By means of statistical analysis, we demonstrate that naive estimates of the spread of… read more | Chapter
2018. Text form and grammatical changes in Medieval French: A treebank-based diachronic study. Diachronic Treebanks, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 393–428
This paper presents a treebank-based study of the effect the text form (prose vs. verse) has on the course of two grammatical changes in Medieval French: the loss of null subjects and the loss of OV word order. By means of statistical analysis, we demonstrate that naive estimates of the spread of… read more | Article
2012. Prédire la position de l’adjectif épithète en français: Approche quantitative. Lingvisticæ Investigationes 35:1, pp. 28–75
The paper provides a quantitative study (on the syntax) of the placement alternation for the adjective within the noun phrase in French. Taking the hypothesis that position constraints are mostly preferential as a starting point, we develop a methodology based on statistical inference in order to… read more | Article