2016
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.25
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‘Quite’ in Acadian French: A variety of Scalar Focus

Abstract: This paper discusses the properties of the quite de construction in the Baie SainteMarie, Nova Scotia variety of Acadian French in examples such as le/un quite de souper 'quite the/a supper' which have a hyperbolic connotation. Unlike epithet nouns and other French binominals (and Romance more generally), we argue that this Acadian French construction contains a complex DP with a unique N with an expanded left nominal periphery (cf. Giusti 2005Giusti , 2006Giusti , 2012. In order to unify its syntactic and sem… Show more

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