How can synchronic-diachronistic dialectics contribute to the definition of comparability between language grammatical categories? The case of en and y.
Disciplines
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French
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talking about en and y, grammar speak of adverbial pronoms, pronominal adverbs or short pronoms. This label tries to reconcile two grammatical categories as dissimilar pronoun and adverb, the first being linked to the person’s semantic category, the second being characterised by morphological property of invariability; in sum, two properties that belong to radically different plans. The question then arises is his...