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Peer reviewedFlikeid, Karin – Language and Communication, 1992
Historic linguistic consequences were studied in five separate areas of Atlantic Canada's Acadian population. Focus was on certain verbs in the third person present plural and the hypothesis that "allent" and faisent" are the result of hypercorrection. Results suggest complex reasons for their use and an indication of some social…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, French, Grammar
