L’accord sujet-verbe en français contemporain : une étude de la variation grammaticale et sociale
In this paper, the results from a pilot study of a larger project looking at variable agreement with quantifying expressions in French are reported. Quantifying expressions such as ‘la majorité’, ‘le reste’ can be found with either singular or plural agreement in French, which is often attributed to...
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| Language: | English |
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Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO
2012-04-01
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| Series: | Corela |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/corela/2614 |
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| Summary: | In this paper, the results from a pilot study of a larger project looking at variable agreement with quantifying expressions in French are reported. Quantifying expressions such as ‘la majorité’, ‘le reste’ can be found with either singular or plural agreement in French, which is often attributed to a mismatch between the syntactic and semantic number of the noun. This project considers these expressions from both a linguistic and a sociolinguistic perspective, looking at the effect of a number of linguistic and social factors on agreement, and considering therefore the influence of the cotext (internal factors) and context (external factors). The aim of the pilot study reported here was to identify the most important factors for consideration in the main study, and to identify any possible problems with the methodology. |
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| ISSN: | 1638-573X |