Variation, Contact and Convergence in French Spoken Outside France

Bibliographic Data

ID12987662
AuthorsFrançoise Gadet (Université Paris Cité, corresponding author), Mari C Jones (Université Paris Cité), Mari Jones
Year2008
Volume2
Issue1
Pages238-248
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language Contact (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1955-2629 • E-ISSN: 1877-4091
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/000000008792525372
OpenAlexW2065758247
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited11

This article focuses on syntactic phonemena observed in situations of language contact in the French-speaking world, where French finds itself in (usually unfavorable) competition with English. A number of cases are examined where a superficial analysis might conceivably point to a change caused by transfer from English: more specifically, in the verb system (auxiliaries, the subjunctive), the use of clitic pronouns, adjective position (preposed or postposed), certain infinitival constructions, prepositions (including preposition stranding), the use of relative pronouns and que-deletion, the particle back and the marker comme. Our conclusions draw on theories of linguistic contact and change, both with respect to French and, more broadly, the study of language

Adjective · Clitic · Language contact · Linguistics · Noun · Point (geometry · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · Verb · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy