Variation, Contact and Convergence in French Spoken Outside France

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12987662
AutoresFrançoise Gadet (Université Paris Cité, autor correspondente), Mari C Jones (Université Paris Cité), Mari Jones
Ano2008
Volume2
Fascículo1
Páginas238-248
Data de publicação2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Language Contact (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1955-2629 • E-ISSN: 1877-4091
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/000000008792525372
OpenAlexW2065758247
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas11

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