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Peer reviewedAshby, William J.; Bentivoglio, Paolo – Language Variation and Change, 1993
The quantitative methodology of GOLDVARB is used to examine the variable distribution of lexical noun phrases representing core arguments of the verb in a corpus of spoken French and Spanish. The distribution is shown to conform to a grammatically and pragmatically motivated pattern known as Preferred Argument Structure. (Contains 26 references.)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedDubois, Sylvie – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Variation among tokens of enumeration in Montreal French are studied to explain how the constitutive processes interact in terms of Slobin's (1977) charges to language: be clear, processible in real time, quick and easy, and expressive. The contributions of six structural factors or processes to the fulfillment of these charges are examined.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedNadasdi, Terry – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Analyzes two variants of subject doubling in Ontario French: a non-doubled variant and a doubled variant containing a clitic agreement marker. It is proposed that the doubled variant is favored when the clitic's default features match those of the subject NP (noun phrase), while lack of matching favors the non-doubled variant.(Author/JL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
