Variation, Contact and Convergence in French Spoken Outside France

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12987662
AutoresFrançoise Gadet (Université Paris Cité, autor de correspondencia), Mari C Jones (Université Paris Cité), Mari Jones
Año2008
Volumen2
Número1
Páginas238-248
Fecha de publicación2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Language Contact (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1955-2629 • E-ISSN: 1877-4091
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/000000008792525372
OpenAlexW2065758247
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias 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