Marie Labelle
Biographic Data
| ID | 3838920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie Labelle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Labelle |
| SIGNATURE | LABELLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université du Québec à Montréal |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-8575-3964 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Apparent expletive negation, silent comparatives, and domain widening in Quebec French superlative and universal constructions
In Quebec French, embedded clauses introduced by a universal quantifier or by a superlative may contain a negative morpheme pas that has been analyzed as a type of expletive negation, although it does not have the distribution of the known cases of expletive negation. It is argued that, in the constructions containing that apparently expletive negation, pas is not a new type of expletive, but it is a standard negation operating in syntax and nega…
The French Jespersen’s Cycle and Negative Concord
Syntaxe du français médiéval et changement linguistique
Ce numéro spécial de la Revue canadienne de linguistique présente un ensemble d’études sur le français médiéval découlant d'un colloque qui a eu lieu à l'UQAM les 3 et 4 octobre 2014 sous le thème « L'utilisation des corpus (annotés) pour comprendre le changement linguistique ». Dans cette introduction, nous mettrons en évidence trois facteurs qui donnent à ce numéro son intérêt et son unité : les thèmes abordés, les approches linguistiques et so…
Topic and focus in Old French V1 and V2 structures
The hypothesis that Old French was not a verb-second (V2) language, but rather a Topic-initial language, is evaluated in a corpus of verb initial (V1) and V2 matrix clauses extracted from a corpus of 12 th - and 13 th -century texts. It is shown that the initial constituent of V2 clauses is not always a Topic; it may be part of the informational Focus, or it could be an element that is neither Topic nor Focus. In addition, in V1 and V2 sentences …
Measuring Metasyntactic Abilities
Examining the contribution of metasyntactic ability to reading comprehension among native and non-native speakers of French
The particular contribution of metasyntactic ability (i.e., the ability to consciously reflect about the syntactic aspects of language and intentionally to control grammatical rules) to second language reading skills is still not clear. While some studies concluded that metasyntactic ability contributes to reading among non-native speakers (NNS), others did not observe any particular contribution of that specific metalinguistic ability among NNS,…
Roots in models of grammar
Déplacement stylistique à gauche de verbes non conjugués en ancien et en moyen français
L’antéposition d’un verbe non conjugué (participe passé, infinitif) en ancien et en moyen français a été assimilée à l’antéposition stylistique de l’islandais. Nous montrons que dans le cas du français, ces antépositions illustrent trois constructions différentes, toutes distinctes de l’antéposition stylistique de l’islandais. Dans la construction la plus fréquente, étiquetée déplacement stylistique à gauche, l’expression antéposée s’insère dans …
Diachronic changes in negative expressions
Omission des déterminants
This article focuses on whether determiner omission by two-year-old children is constrained at the level of the prosodic foot or whether it is a function of the different levels of the prosodic hierarchy. Nine French-speaking children aged 2;0 to 2;7 were asked to repeat 54 four- or five-word sentences of the form “Pronoun V NP” with three conditions: a) det + monosyllabic noun; b) det + bisyllabic noun; c) det + monosyllabic adjective + monosyll…
French Locatum verbs and incorporation
The French reflexive and reciprocal se
Clausal architecture in Early Old French
Grammatical and situational aspect in French
We study the ability of children to provide an appropriate continuation for a stimulus sentence, taking into account the joint demands of situational aspect and grammatical aspect. We hypothesize that the aspectual transitions required by some aspectual combinations play a role in the difficulty of providing an appropriate continuation for them. We tested 130 French-speaking children of 5;06 to 9;0. In general, the data are consistent with the id…
The Selectional Restrictions of French Past Tenses
This article argues against the idea that the Imparfait and the Passé Simple in French are aspectually sensitive tense operators. Both morphemes combine with any type of eventuality. It is not the case that a clause in the Imparfait denotes a state, or that a clause in the Passé Simple denotes an event. It is proposed that the Passé Simple is a true past tense, which introduces a past eventuality in the discourse with the condition that it be the…
Les infinitifs racines en langage enfantin
This article is mostly devoted to a critical review of the main analyses of root infinitives. Confronting these analyses to acquisition data from French, it is shown that an analysis in terms of a “null auxiliary” is more compatible with the data than the alternative hypotheses. However, an analysis in terms of a null or deleted auxiliary raises some difficult questions with respect to the existence and the nature of null elements in child langua…
The status of post-verbal subjects in French child language
Changes in verb position in French negative infinitival clauses
Since the 15th century, negative infinitives in French have undergone a change from ne V pas to ne pas V. This change takes place at different times, depending on the nature of the verb. Lexical verbs undergo the change between 1550 and 1750, modals ( pouvoir, vouloir, devoir ) essentially change between 1650 and 1900, and auxiliaries have been changing at a slow pace since 1650. We explore the idea that, for main verbs, the change in word order …
L’évolution des propositions infinitives négatives en français
Nous examinons l’évolution de la position des morphèmes négatifs pas et point par rapport au verbe infinitif. On observe que le changement de la construction ne Vinf pas/point à ne pas/point Vinf se fait à des époques différentes selon que le verbe infinitif est un verbe plein, un modal (pouvoir, vouloir, devoir) ou un auxiliaire. Contrairement à la plupart des analyses, nous explorons l’hypothèse que le changement initial consiste en un repositi…
Change of state and valency
The goal of this article is twofold. First, I explore the hypothesis that a number of regularities in the distribution of the two types of inchoative constructions with verbs of change of state in French, the superficially intransitive construction and the reflexive construction (illustrated in (1)–(3)), can be captured by an analysis whereby monovalent verbs of change of state may project the Patient argument to the subject or to the object posi…
Change of state and valency
The goal of this article is twofold. First, I explore the hypothesis that a number of regularities in the distribution of the two types of inchoative constructions with verbs of change of state in French, the superficially intransitive construction and the reflexive construction (illustrated in (1)–(3)), can be captured by an analysis whereby monovalent verbs of change of state may project the Patient argument to the subject or to the object posi…
The French reflexive and reciprocal se
Clausal architecture in Early Old French
Diachronic changes in negative expressions
French Locatum verbs and incorporation
Changes in verb position in French negative infinitival clauses
Since the 15th century, negative infinitives in French have undergone a change from ne V pas to ne pas V. This change takes place at different times, depending on the nature of the verb. Lexical verbs undergo the change between 1550 and 1750, modals ( pouvoir, vouloir, devoir ) essentially change between 1650 and 1900, and auxiliaries have been changing at a slow pace since 1650. We explore the idea that, for main verbs, the change in word order …
Change of state and valency
The goal of this article is twofold. First, I explore the hypothesis that a number of regularities in the distribution of the two types of inchoative constructions with verbs of change of state in French, the superficially intransitive construction and the reflexive construction (illustrated in (1)–(3)), can be captured by an analysis whereby monovalent verbs of change of state may project the Patient argument to the subject or to the object posi…
The status of post-verbal subjects in French child language
Changes in verb position in French negative infinitival clauses
Since the 15th century, negative infinitives in French have undergone a change from ne V pas to ne pas V. This change takes place at different times, depending on the nature of the verb. Lexical verbs undergo the change between 1550 and 1750, modals ( pouvoir, vouloir, devoir ) essentially change between 1650 and 1900, and auxiliaries have been changing at a slow pace since 1650. We explore the idea that, for main verbs, the change in word order …
L’évolution des propositions infinitives négatives en français
Nous examinons l’évolution de la position des morphèmes négatifs pas et point par rapport au verbe infinitif. On observe que le changement de la construction ne Vinf pas/point à ne pas/point Vinf se fait à des époques différentes selon que le verbe infinitif est un verbe plein, un modal (pouvoir, vouloir, devoir) ou un auxiliaire. Contrairement à la plupart des analyses, nous explorons l’hypothèse que le changement initial consiste en un repositi…
Les infinitifs racines en langage enfantin
This article is mostly devoted to a critical review of the main analyses of root infinitives. Confronting these analyses to acquisition data from French, it is shown that an analysis in terms of a “null auxiliary” is more compatible with the data than the alternative hypotheses. However, an analysis in terms of a null or deleted auxiliary raises some difficult questions with respect to the existence and the nature of null elements in child langua…
Grammatical and situational aspect in French
We study the ability of children to provide an appropriate continuation for a stimulus sentence, taking into account the joint demands of situational aspect and grammatical aspect. We hypothesize that the aspectual transitions required by some aspectual combinations play a role in the difficulty of providing an appropriate continuation for them. We tested 130 French-speaking children of 5;06 to 9;0. In general, the data are consistent with the id…
The Selectional Restrictions of French Past Tenses
This article argues against the idea that the Imparfait and the Passé Simple in French are aspectually sensitive tense operators. Both morphemes combine with any type of eventuality. It is not the case that a clause in the Imparfait denotes a state, or that a clause in the Passé Simple denotes an event. It is proposed that the Passé Simple is a true past tense, which introduces a past eventuality in the discourse with the condition that it be the…
Clausal architecture in Early Old French
The French reflexive and reciprocal se
French Locatum verbs and incorporation
Omission des déterminants
This article focuses on whether determiner omission by two-year-old children is constrained at the level of the prosodic foot or whether it is a function of the different levels of the prosodic hierarchy. Nine French-speaking children aged 2;0 to 2;7 were asked to repeat 54 four- or five-word sentences of the form “Pronoun V NP” with three conditions: a) det + monosyllabic noun; b) det + bisyllabic noun; c) det + monosyllabic adjective + monosyll…
Examining the contribution of metasyntactic ability to reading comprehension among native and non-native speakers of French
The particular contribution of metasyntactic ability (i.e., the ability to consciously reflect about the syntactic aspects of language and intentionally to control grammatical rules) to second language reading skills is still not clear. While some studies concluded that metasyntactic ability contributes to reading among non-native speakers (NNS), others did not observe any particular contribution of that specific metalinguistic ability among NNS,…
Roots in models of grammar
Déplacement stylistique à gauche de verbes non conjugués en ancien et en moyen français
L’antéposition d’un verbe non conjugué (participe passé, infinitif) en ancien et en moyen français a été assimilée à l’antéposition stylistique de l’islandais. Nous montrons que dans le cas du français, ces antépositions illustrent trois constructions différentes, toutes distinctes de l’antéposition stylistique de l’islandais. Dans la construction la plus fréquente, étiquetée déplacement stylistique à gauche, l’expression antéposée s’insère dans …
Diachronic changes in negative expressions
Measuring Metasyntactic Abilities
Syntaxe du français médiéval et changement linguistique
Ce numéro spécial de la Revue canadienne de linguistique présente un ensemble d’études sur le français médiéval découlant d'un colloque qui a eu lieu à l'UQAM les 3 et 4 octobre 2014 sous le thème « L'utilisation des corpus (annotés) pour comprendre le changement linguistique ». Dans cette introduction, nous mettrons en évidence trois facteurs qui donnent à ce numéro son intérêt et son unité : les thèmes abordés, les approches linguistiques et so…
Topic and focus in Old French V1 and V2 structures
The hypothesis that Old French was not a verb-second (V2) language, but rather a Topic-initial language, is evaluated in a corpus of verb initial (V1) and V2 matrix clauses extracted from a corpus of 12 th - and 13 th -century texts. It is shown that the initial constituent of V2 clauses is not always a Topic; it may be part of the informational Focus, or it could be an element that is neither Topic nor Focus. In addition, in V1 and V2 sentences …
The French Jespersen’s Cycle and Negative Concord
Apparent expletive negation, silent comparatives, and domain widening in Quebec French superlative and universal constructions
In Quebec French, embedded clauses introduced by a universal quantifier or by a superlative may contain a negative morpheme pas that has been analyzed as a type of expletive negation, although it does not have the distribution of the known cases of expletive negation. It is argued that, in the constructions containing that apparently expletive negation, pas is not a new type of expletive, but it is a standard negation operating in syntax and nega…
Linguistics (18 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (15 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (11 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Verb (6 works)