Author: Luc V. Baronian
Publisher: Presses Université Laval
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : fr
Pages : 526
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This book brings together, in tribute to French-language Quebec linguist Yves Charles Morin, fifteen articles on French linguistics, covering the areas of phonology and morphosyntax in historical perspective, structural or sociolinguistics. The articles are presented to both the French reference and regional varieties, both sides of the Atlantic, as well as relations between these varieties of French.
Author: Randall Scott Gess
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027234914
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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This volume presents a selection of French varieties representing the great diversity of this language along geographical, social, and stylistic dimensions. Twelve illustrations from regions as far removed as Western Canada and Central Africa represent widely divergent social contexts of language use. Each chapter is based on original surveys conducted within the framework of the Phonology of Contemporary French project, described in the Introduction. These surveys constitute an invaluable source of new data for researchers, as many of the varieties included are otherwise undocumented in any systematic way. The chapters follow a similar format: presentation of the survey(s) and the sociolinguistic dimensions of the variety studied; description of the phonological inventory of the system(s), principal allophonic realizations, phonotactic constraints, behavior of schwa, behavior of liaison consonants, and other notable characteristics. The book opens with an informative introduction and closes with a chapter providing a synthesis of the major findings by continent.
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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738172911
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Author: Pierre Larrivée
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110238616
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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Why do grammars change? The cycle of negation proposed by Jespersen is crucially linked to the status of items and phrases. The definition of criteria establishing when a polarity item becomes a negative element, and the identification of the role of phrases for the evolution of negation are the two objectives pursued by the contributions to this volume. The contributions look at the emergence of negative items, and their relation within a given sentence, with particular reference to English and French. The comparative perspective supports the documentation of the fine-grained steps that shed light on the factors that (i) determine change and those that (ii) accompany actuation, which are considered through a dialogue between functionalist and formalist approaches. By looking at the place of negation in the architecture of the sentence, they take up the debate as to the relevance of phrasal projections and consider the role of features. Focusing on the make-up of individual items makes it possible to re-conceptualise the Jespersen cycle as the apparent result of the documented evolution patterns of individual (series of) items. This novel perspective is solidly grounded on an extensive use of the complete, up to date bibliography, and will contribute to shape future research.
Author: Thierry Van de Leur
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Divers textes sur les mysteres du monde, les lieux etranges..."
Author: Louis Joseph Fish
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial correspondence
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Author: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317688171
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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Linguistic Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory honors Shana Poplack in bringing together contributions from leading scholars in language variation and change. The book demonstrates how variationist methodology can be applied to the study of linguistic structures and processes. It introduces readers to variation theory, while also providing an overview of current debates on the linguistic, cognitive and sociocultural factors involved in linguistic patterning. With its coverage of a diverse range of language varieties and linguistic problems, this book offers new quantitative analyses of actual language production and processing from both top experts and emerging scholars, and presents students and practitioners with theoretical frameworks to meaningfully engage in accountable research practice.
Author: Sylvain Detey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199573719
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 595
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This book examines the variation found in modern spoken French, based on the research programme 'Phonology of Contemporary French' (Phonologie du Francais Contemporain, PFC). Extensive data are drawn from all over the French-speaking world, including Algeria, Canada, Louisiana, Mauritius, and Switzerland. Although the principal focus is on differences in pronunciation, the authors also analyse the spoken language at all levels from sound to meaning. The book is accompanied by a website hosting audio-visual material for teaching purposes, data, and a variety of tools for working with corpora. The first part of the book outlines some key concepts and approaches to the description of spoken French. Chapters in Part II are devoted to the study of individual samples of spoken French from all over the world, covering phonological and grammatical features as well as lexical and cultural aspects. The book's companion website provides a class-friendly ready-to-use multimedia version of these 17 chapters, as well as the sound files and full transcription for each extract. Part III looks at inter and intra-speaker variation: it begins with chapters that provide the methodological background to the study of phonological variation using databases, while in the second section authors present case studies of a number of PFC survey points, including Paris, the Central African Republic, and Quebec. Varieties of Spoken French will be an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers, and students of all aspects of French language and linguistics.
Author: Christoph Gabriel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110550288
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 989
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This handbook is structured in two parts: it provides, on the one hand, a comprehensive (synchronic) overview of the phonetics and phonology (including prosody) of a breadth of Romance languages and focuses, on the other hand, on central topics of research in Romance segmental and suprasegmental phonology, including comparative and diachronic perspectives. Phonetics and phonology have always been a core discipline in Romance linguistics: the wide synchronic variety of languages and dialects derived from spoken Latin is extensively explored in numerous corpus and atlas projects, and for quite a few of these varieties there is also more or less ample documentation of at least some of their diachronic stages. This rich empirical database offers excellent testing grounds for different theoretical approaches and allows for substantial insights into phonological structuring as well as into (incipient, ongoing, or concluded) processes of phonological change. The volume can be read both as a state-of-the-art report of research in the field and as a manual of Romance languages with special emphasis on the key topics of phonetics and phonology.
Author: James Parton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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