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The Pattern je le veux voir in 17th-Century French

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Jack Autrey Dabbs*
Affiliation:
St. Edward's University

Abstract

[In the first part of the 17th century the normal French pattern was je le veux voir; but after Molière the pattern became je veux le voir. Syntax had little influence on the change: it was due partly to logical and phonetic causes, but was retarded in the popular language by analogy.]

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Copyright © 1948 Linguistic Society of America

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