Variation And Change In French
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Variation And Change In French Morphosyntax
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Author : Anna Tristram
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Variation And Change In French Morphosyntax written by Anna Tristram and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Collective nouns such asmajorite or foulehave long been of interest to linguists for their unusual semantic properties, and provide a valuable source of new data on the evolution of French grammar. This book tests the hypothesis that plural agreement with collective nouns is becoming more frequent in French. Through an analysis of data from a variety of sources, including sociolinguistic interviews, gap-fill tests and corpora, the complex linguistic and external factors which affect this type of agreement are examined, shedding new light on their interaction in this context. Broader questions concerning the methodological challenges of studying variation and change in morphosyntax, and the application of sociolinguistic generalisations to the French of France, are also addressed.
Variation And Change In French
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Author : Rebecca Posner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1990-01-01
Variation And Change In French written by Rebecca Posner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Variation And Change In Verbal Agreement With Collective Nouns In French
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Author : Anna Carolyn Tristram
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Variation And Change In Verbal Agreement With Collective Nouns In French written by Anna Carolyn Tristram and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Social And Stylistic Variation In Spoken French
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Author : Nigel Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Social And Stylistic Variation In Spoken French written by Nigel Armstrong and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Many of the assumptions of Labovian sociolinguistics are based on results drawn from US and UK English, Latin American Spanish and Canadian French. Sociolinguistic variation in the French of France has been rather little studied compared to these languages. This volume is the first examination and exploration of variation in French that studies in a unified way the levels of phonology, grammar and lexis using quantitative methods. One of its aims is to establish whether the patterns of variation that have been reported in French conform to those reported in other languages. A second important theme of this volume is the study of variation across speech styles in French, through a comparison with some of the best-known English results. The book is therefore also the first to examine current theories of social-stylistic variation by using fresh quantitative data. These data throw new light on the influence of methodology on results, on why certain linguistic variables have more stylistic value, and on how the strong normative tradition in France moulds interactions between social and stylistic variation.
Syntactic Change In French
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Author : Sam Wolfe (Professor of French linguistics)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Syntactic Change In French written by Sam Wolfe (Professor of French linguistics) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Electronic books categories.
Providing the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax, this title covers syntactic variation and change across all periods of French, and in standard and non-standard varieties, and explores phenomena such as subject positions and null subjects, verb movement, object placement, and negation.
Social And Linguistic Change In European French
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Author : N. Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-07-30
Social And Linguistic Change In European French written by N. Armstrong and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An in depth examination of linguistic variation and change as a reflection of social convergence in the major French-speaking countries of Europe - France, Belgium and Switzerland. Considered in the context of linguistic levelling the book provides a detailed account of recent social and linguistic change in European French.
Sociolinguistic Variation In Contemporary French
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Author : Kate Beeching
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Sociolinguistic Variation In Contemporary French written by Kate Beeching and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Divided into three main sections on Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, this new volume on variation in French aims to provide a snapshot of the state of sociolinguistic research inside and outside metropolitan France. From a diatopic perspective, varieties in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa and Canada are considered, mainly with respect to phonological features but also focusing on syntactic and lexical evolutions (the relative clause in Ivorian French and discourse markers in Canadian French). The acquisition of stylistic features of French figures in chapters on both first and second language learners and variation across different genres is addressed with respect to non-standard non-finite forms. Finally, a section on semantic change traces the way that interactional and other socio-historical factors affect word meaning. The volume will appeal to (socio-)linguists with an interest in contemporary French as well as to advanced undergraduates and post-graduate students of French and specialists in the field.
Syntactic Change In French
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Author : Sam Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-22
Syntactic Change In French written by Sam Wolfe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax. It makes use of the latest formal syntactic tools and combines careful textual analysis with a detailed synthesis of the research literature to provide a novel analysis of the major syntactic developments in the history of French. The empirical scope of the volume is exceptionally broad, and includes discussion of syntactic variation and change in Latin, Old, Middle, Renaissance, and Classical French, and standard and non-standard varieties of Modern French. Following an introduction to the general trends in grammatical change from Latin to French, Sam Wolfe explores a wide range of phenomena including the left periphery, subject positions and null subjects, verb movement, object placement, negation, and the makeup of the nominal expression. The book concludes with a comparative analysis of how French has come to develop the unique typological profile it has within Romance today. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and comparative Romance linguistics, as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory and historical linguistics more broadly.
Grammatical Variation Across Space And Time
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Author : Martin Elsig
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Grammatical Variation Across Space And Time written by Martin Elsig and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Interrogative clauses in French show abundant variation, especially with regard to the position of the subject vis-à-vis the finite verb, the placement of the wh-word, and the use of question markers such as est-ce que and ti/tu. This book presents a comprehensive study of the evolution and use of French interrogative constructions across a time span of approximately five hundred years by drawing on written sources (15th to 17th century) and oral data (19th and 20th century). Special attention is paid to the regional variation between European French and Quebec French. A variationist analysis reveals the relevant sociolinguistic factors conditioning variant choice. On the basis of the results obtained, the syntax of the different variants is modeled within the framework of generative grammar. In particular, the progressive diachronic decline and restriction of subject-verb inversion is argued to mirror the loss of verb movement. This book is of interest to anyone concerned with syntactic variation and change.
Variation And Change In Gallo Romance Grammar
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Author : Sam Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-07
Variation And Change In Gallo Romance Grammar written by Sam Wolfe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Romance. Both standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance data can be of enormous value to studies of morphosyntactic variation and change, yet, as the volume demonstrates, non-standard and comparative Gallo-Romance data have often been lacking in both synchronic and diachronic studies. Following an introduction that sets out the conceptual background, the volume is divided into three parts whose chapters explore a variety of topics in the domains of sentence structure, the verb complex, and word structure. The empirical foundation of the volume is exceptionally rich, drawing on standard and non-standard data from French, Occitan, Francoprovençal, Picard, Wallon, and Norman. This diversity is also reflected in the theoretical and conceptual approaches adopted, which span traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal morphological and syntactic theory, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and (Gallo-) Romance linguistics as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.