La référence temporelle au futur dans les bulletins météo en France et au Québec : regard variationniste sur l'oral préparé

Blondeau, Hélène; Labeau, Emmanuelle

doi:10.1017/cnj.2016.26

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“…Applying this approach to other varieties of French will enable researchers to advance knowledge of possible dialectal differences. Finally, it is necessary to expand the types of data used to investigate FTR in French (e.g., informal conversations like the ones examined here) in order to broaden the understanding of this morphosyntactic phenomenon beyond observations made from interview data (see Blondeau and Labeau 2016). In particular, data-elicitation methods that allow speakers to frame their own discourse and that are not guided by the interventions of interviewers may be especially fruitful since the current study suggests that FTR in French should be examined at the discourse level, rather than a smaller (e.g., sentential) level.…”

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On the role of the present indicative in variable future-time reference in Hexagonal French

Gudmestad¹,

Edmonds²,

Donaldson³

et al. 2017

Can. J. Linguist.

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This article investigates variable future-time expression among native speakers of Hexagonal French who participated in informal conversations. The quantitative analysis is the first to examine the inflectional future, periphrastic future, and present indicative as separate forms within a single statistical model of French oral production. Results indicate that temporal distance and presence/absence of a temporal expression predict use of these verb forms. The second phase of the analysis focused on the use of the present indicative in future-time contexts. The examination of each instance of the present indicative shows that an immediate lexical temporal indicator is not necessary for this form to convey futurity and that future-time reference is often established at the discourse level and occasionally through apparent shared knowledge between the interlocutors. This investigation suggests the value of including the present indicative in the analysis of future-time reference in Hexagonal French in order to fully capture variation.

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On the role of the present indicative in variable future-time reference in Hexagonal French

Gudmestad¹,

Edmonds²,

Donaldson³

et al. 2017

Can. J. Linguist.

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“…Poplack and Turpin (1999) observed a rate of 7%, in comparison with the two morphological futures, which were at 20% for the Synthetic Future and 73% for the Analytic Future respectively. However, recent studies report a higher frequency of Present, 32% in informal conversations collected in France (Edmonds et al, 2017;Gudmestad et al, 2018), and 27.5% in France, and 42% in Québec in prepared oral speech data (Blondeau and Labeau, 2016).…”

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“…So far, only a few studies have considered all three variants (Poplack and Turpin, 1999;Poplack and Dion, 2009;Grimm, 2015;Blondeau and Labeau, 2016;Edmonds et al, 2017;Gudmestad et al, 2018). The exclusion of the Present from the analysis is partly due to the fact that most of the variationist studies have been based on data from semi-directed sociolinguistics interviews, where the Present variant is rare.…”

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“…The exclusion of the Present from the analysis is partly due to the fact that most of the variationist studies have been based on data from semi-directed sociolinguistics interviews, where the Present variant is rare. Only recently have other types of corpora been studied: natural conversations (King and Nadasdi, 2003;Hansen and Strudsholm, 2006;Comeau, 2015;Edmonds et al, 2017, Gudmestad et al, 2018, weather reports (Blondeau and Labeau, 2016), and text messages (Labeau, 2014). These studies reported a larger presence of the Present variant, which warrants its integration in the analysis.…”

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“…We coded for the type of verb, an aspect often neglected in other studies of FTR in spoken French (with the exception of Poplack and Turpin, 1999). Since the degree of regularity of the verb had an effect on the variation in prepared speech in Québec and in France (Blondeau and Labeau, 2016), we wanted to further explore this hypothesis by refining the categories.…”

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Texting the future in Belgium and Québec: Present matters

Tremblay

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Labeau

2019

French Language Studies

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This study investigates the variation in the expression of Future Temporal Reference in text messages in Belgian and Québécois French. Three variants are considered: the Futurate Present, the Synthetic Future and the Analytic Future. The results of multivariate analyses show that the use of the Futurate Present does not appear to be subject to dialectal variation: both communities use this variant at similar rates, and the use of the variant is constrained by the same linguistic factors. The two dialects show differences in their choice of the Synthetic vs the Analytic Future. Unlike Québécois French, Belgian French strongly favours the Synthetic Future. The two dialects also differ with respect to the linguistic constraints in effect. Our analysis shows the need to explore the relationship between variants, and to distinguish between Covert T (realized as Present tense) and Overt T (either Synthetic or Analytic Future). Our results point toward the hybrid nature of text messages: while our results show patterns of use in line with oral/conversational corpora as reflected by the dialectal variation observed, text messages are not exempt from the influence of written French, as shown by the use of Synthetic Future forms in affirmative sentences in the Québec corpus.

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Variation and change in future temporal reference with avoir and être

Tristram

2020

French Language Studies

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ABSTRACT Variation and change in the future temporal reference (FTR) sector in French has been the subject of numerous studies, from a variety of perspectives. Most studies consider the patterns of variation and evidence for change by looking at the verbal system as a whole. However, there are indications that some verbs differ significantly in their preference for one or other variant. Avoir and être are two such verbs. This study first examines the overall distribution of the inflected and periphrastic future with these two verbs in the ESLO corpus of spoken French, and considers the evidence for change. A multivariate analysis of the linguistic factors affecting variant selection in FTR with these two verbs reveals no exceptional effects; we thus explore other possible explanations for the exceptional distribution of FTR variants with these two verbs.

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La référence temporelle au futur dans les bulletins météo en France et au Québec : regard variationniste sur l'oral préparé

Cited by 6 publications

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On the role of the present indicative in variable future-time reference in Hexagonal French

On the role of the present indicative in variable future-time reference in Hexagonal French

Texting the future in Belgium and Québec: Present matters

Variation and change in future temporal reference with avoir and être

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