dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Swart, Henriëtte de | |
dc.contributor.author | Rendl, Liv | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-16T01:01:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-03-16T01:01:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/43660 | |
dc.description.abstract | In recent years, the emancipation of women and the increasing awareness of identities outside the gender binary of man and woman have been a central debate in western society. Since the 2000’s the French language has seen linguistic changes reflecting these societal changes. The most recent developments are the so-called Écriture Inclusive and the Écriture Neutre. Analysing these language changes, the present thesis focuses on two common neo-pronouns iel(s) and ael(s) emerging from these societally induced languages changes and investigates their effects on pronominal grammar in French. This research bases itself on a corpus study of the use of these neo-pronouns, creating he foundation for a re-worked model of pronoun resolution with in Discourse Representation Theory. Combining the works of Kamp & Reyle (1993), Van der Sandt (1992) and Hunter (2013) this thesis takes a presuppositional approach to pronoun resolution allowing for the inclusion of extra-linguistic information for their interpretation. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.subject | The thesis investigates recent changes in pronominal French grammars intrduced by neo-pronouns emering from the Ecriture Inclusive (Inclusive Writing) et Ecriture Neutre (Neutral Writing). Based on a corpus study and previous research this work presents a new model of pronoun resolution in French. | |
dc.title | From il and elle to iel and ael: the French Gender Revolution - A Semantic Model of Pronominal Grammar Changes in French | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | Neo-pronouns; French; Pronominal grammar; DRT; Semantics; Pronoun Resolution | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Linguistics | |
dc.thesis.id | 14034 | |