LES PRONOMS PERSONNELS ANTICIPÉS DES LANGUES ROMANES: QUAND ILS N'EXISTAIENT PAS EN LATIN, COMMENT ONT-ILS ÉTÉ CRÉÉS? ILLUSTRATION AVEC L'ÉVOLUTION DU PRONOM "ON" DANS LA LANGUE FRANÇAISE
ANTICIPATED PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES: WHEN DID THEY NOT EXIST IN LATIN LANGUAGE, HOW WERE THEY CREATED? ILLUSTRATION WITH THE EVOLUTION OF THE PRONOUN ‘ON’ IN FRENCH

Summary/Abstract: The evolution from Latin to Romance languages has generated an abundance of historical linguistics studies that have described, sometimes very thoroughly, the emergence of new forms and the transformations for more than two millennia. But the causes of these innovations are not always obvious. This article comes to complete the well-known evolution from the Latin noun ‘homo’ to the indefinite pronoun ‘on’ of the French language. Initially, the word assumed the function of an impersonal subject, but during the 20th century, developed a new value for the first personal plural, therefore the concepts of ‘and ‘anticipation’ grant a better understanding and explanation.

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