Diachronic changes in the system of adversary conjunctions of the French language
The article analysies complex and ambiguous historical processes in the system of adversative сoordinators at the early stage of the development of the French language (IX—XVI centuries). After having analyzed the data of the Old and Middle French subcorpuses of the French National Corpus Frantext with distributive, functional-semantic, logical-semantic and contextual instruments and the transformation method, the author established quantitative and qualitative changes in the system of ...
