2012
DOI: 10.1017/s0959269511000524
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New insights on an old rivalry: Thepassé simpleand thepassé composéin spoken Acadian French

Abstract: This study investigates the expression of past temporal reference in a highly conservative variety of Acadian French spoken in the Baie Sainte-Marie region of Nova Scotia, Canada. Variationist analysis of data from a sociolinguistic corpus for the village of Grosses Coques reveals a split between narrative and conversational discourse, with variation mainly between use of the passé simple and the imparfait in the former and between the passé composé and the imparfait in the latter. The passé simple remains in … Show more

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“…Acadian French refers to varieties spoken primarily in Canada's In the case of Baie Sainte-Marie, centuries of relative isolation from external varieties of French as well as a fairly homogeneous settler population resulted in a community with very little dialect contact (Comeau, King, and LeBlanc, 2016 Conservative features related to the tense system involve productive use of the simple past tense (Gesner, 1979;Comeau, King, and Butler, 2012), a tense lost in most spoken varieties of French. The fact that this variety retains a richer verbal morphology than varieties of Laurentian French (and some varieties of Acadian French) has repercussions on the study of the subjunctive mood, to be discussed in greater detail below.…”
Section: The Baie Sainte-marie Communitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Acadian French refers to varieties spoken primarily in Canada's In the case of Baie Sainte-Marie, centuries of relative isolation from external varieties of French as well as a fairly homogeneous settler population resulted in a community with very little dialect contact (Comeau, King, and LeBlanc, 2016 Conservative features related to the tense system involve productive use of the simple past tense (Gesner, 1979;Comeau, King, and Butler, 2012), a tense lost in most spoken varieties of French. The fact that this variety retains a richer verbal morphology than varieties of Laurentian French (and some varieties of Acadian French) has repercussions on the study of the subjunctive mood, to be discussed in greater detail below.…”
Section: The Baie Sainte-marie Communitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Par conséquent, les études variationnistes portant sur la variation grammaticale sont moins fréquentes. Néanmoins, certains chercheurs ont démontré que des phénomènes grammaticaux pouvaient être étudiés comme variables sociolinguistiques (Coveney, 2002(Coveney, , 2012Blondeau, 2006 ;Comeau, King et Butler, 2012).…”
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“…Par conséquent, les études variationnistes portant sur la variation grammaticale sont moins fréquentes. Néanmoins, certains chercheurs ont démontré que des phénomènes grammaticaux pouvaient être étudiés comme variables sociolinguistiques (Coveney, 2002(Coveney, , 2012Blondeau, 2006 ;Comeau, King et Butler, 2012).Notre étude consiste en une observation de la variation entre plusieurs structures syntaxiques, en l'occurrence l'emploi des exclamatives en QU-, au sein d'une communauté qui est celle des habitants de banlieues. La variation observée est analysée de manière quantitative et qualitative selon les critères …”
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“…Sachant que les colons acadiensétaient venus principalement du centre ouest au XVII`e me siècle, la situation actuelle s'éclaire. L'étude récente menée par Comeau et al (2012) analyse des données fournies par 14 informateurs de Grosses Coques 25 (sur 30 interviews recueillies en 1990)âgés d'entre 20 et 84 ans. L'analyse variationniste révèle une rupture entre les données narratives (PS vs IMP) et conversationnelles (PC vs IMP), ce qui confirme l'affinité du PS avec la narration.…”
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