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Another Icon of Language Contact Shattered
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Muysken, Pieter – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
"Ouh que c'est laid!" "Oh this is ugly!" is one of the comments among the 11,800 hits on Google for the sequence "la fille que je sors avec" [the girl I go out with]. Often the comments include the idea that the whole expression has been taken from English as a direct calque. The authors of the present keynote…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Sociolinguistics, Form Classes (Languages), French
Benchmark Varieties and the Individual Speaker: Indispensable Touchstones in Studies on Language Contact
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Elsig, Martin – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The authors of "Phrase-final prepositions in Quebec French: An empirical study of contact, code-switching and resistance to convergence", Poplack, Zentz & Dion (2011, this issue), henceforth cited as PZD, make a strong case for showing that, in spite of surface similarities, preposition stranding in Canadian French relative clauses…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Sociolinguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Foreign Countries