Origine e sviluppo del connettivo tuttavia. Un caso di interferenza tra italiano antico e francese antico?

In present-day Italian, tuttavia is a connective that conveys a contrastive value meaning ‘nonetheless’ (Giacalone Ramat/Mauri 2009). However, it originally (twelfth–thirteenth centuries) had a temporal meaning expressing continuity (‘always’), whereas it gradually acquired the contrastive value during the fourteenth century. Considering this development previously occurred in Old French with the same syntactic conditions (cf. Bougy 2007, 119), we will provide a new hypothesis about the historical origin of the connective tuttavia. We will show a Gallo-Romance influence in its origin and diffusion through a corpus-based approach: the corpus DiVo (Dizionario dei Volgarizzamenti) contains the translations from Old French and Latin texts into Old Italian, extremely productive during the thirteenth–fourteenth centuries.