Subject clitics and preverbal negation in European French: Variation, acquisition, diatopy and diachrony

Palasis, Katerina

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.11.012

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“…Among the young children in our sample, however, whatever their age, simple negation remains the rule and bipartite negation is an exception. This result matches research establishing that young children and preteens very rarely produce this particle (Armstrong, 2002; Palasis, 2015, among others). Yet, this particularly low rate of bipartite negation observed at school may seem surprising, given the adults’ efforts to provide a more standard model.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…The absence of ne has been considered a characteristic of children's language throughout the history of modern French. Late mastery of compound negation and very low rates of this variant in corpora have been observed in children aged under 12 3 (see among others Blanche‐Benveniste & Pallaud, 2001; Buson & Nardy, 2020; Dufter & Stark, 2007; Martineau & Mougeon, 2003; Palasis, 2015). Armstrong (2002) observes minimal use of ne (below 2% on average) among the teenagers (age 11–19) in his corpus, with, nevertheless, higher percentages in interviews with the researcher and/or when the topic is serious, compared with conversations with peers.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Style in a school community—“Ne” deletion in French preschool

Buson

Nardy

Rousset

et al. 2023

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This article explores the question of style in a school community, through negation use among the adults and children in a French preschool. Thirteen adults and 61 pupils aged 3–6 years were followed over a period of 2.5 years. The findings draw on a corpus of oral data collected in an unsupervised manner and comprising almost 640,000 transcribed words (428,100 for the children and 210,241 for the adults). The findings show, on the one hand, that the teachers adapt stylistically to their interlocutors and that their professional stance leads to more formal speech and, on the other hand, that the children's use of bipartite negation is marginal before the age of 6 years and does not present notable stylistic variations.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 97%

Style in a school community—“Ne” deletion in French preschool

Buson

Nardy

Rousset

et al. 2023

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…Preschool children are therefore expected to initially handle G1 only and develop G2 later. Palasis (2013Palasis ( , 2015 highlighted this asynchrony in kindergarten data, and showed that children consistently used the items of the same grammar within the boundaries of their utterances, as detailed in These facts are consistent with the diglossic hypothesis that French children start with G1 (no SCLI) and develop G2 (SCLI) only later.…”

Section: The Diglossic Hypothesissupporting

confidence: 66%

Exclusivity! Wh-fronting is not optional wh-movement in Colloquial French

Faure

Palasis

2020

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This article revisits the long-standing issue of the alternation between wh-in-situ and wh-ex-situ questions in French in the light of diglossia and cross-linguistic data. A careful preliminary examination of the numerous wh-structures in Metropolitan French leads us to focus on Colloquial French, which undoubtedly displays both wh-in-situ and wh-ex-situ questions. Within this dataset, wh-ex-situ questions without the est-ce que ‘is it that’ marker are more permissive than in-situ regarding weak-islandhood and superiority. In a Relativized Minimality framework, we suggest that wh-ex-situ items bear an additional feature, which permits them to bypass these constraints. Colloquial French is thus a wh-in-situ language that allows for wh-ex-situ under specific conditions, like other wh-in-situ languages. Hence we argue against free variation and claim that wh-fronting is not driven by a wh-feature, but by another feature. Exploring the contexts where wh-ex-situ is licensed, we highlight a type of non-exhaustive contrast specific to questions, namely Exclusivity, and provide a formalization. The article therefore also contributes to the larger debate on information structure in questions.

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“…As it was mentioned, the category of negation is a philosophical, logical and linguistic phenomenon which opposed to affirmation in various strata and on different levels of the language structure. On the semantic level, there is always an opposition of positive and negative (antonymic relations): long-short, good-bad, etc (Palasis, 2015;Butt & Lahiri, 2013). On the lexical level when the affix denotes negation: negative prefix + root: natural -unnatural, proper -improper, regularirregular; root + negative suffix: shame -shameless, cheer -cheerless.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Category of negation paradigm in diachrony

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The negation in logic and linguistics, negation as a grammatical category on the morphological and syntactic levels are substantiated in the article. It is concluded that in broad semantic terms negation can be expressed in morphologic and syntactic ways in natural language. On the morphological level, negative affixes paradigm and separate parts of speech are taken into consideration, while on the syntactic level the whole negative sentence that includes one or more than one negator is observed. Negation is expressed using affixes that have explicative and implicative components in their meaning. Authentic affixes preserve the semantic meaning of the words they etymologically derive from, giving the word they join to, a special shade of negation. The main source of enrichment of the negative affixes paradigm and their new meaning are affixes borrowed from other languages. The study of the category of negation on different levels in diachronic aspects can help to observe the development of particular parts of speech, which can express negation, and serve as a base for further studies of negation in the different discourses and communicative situations.

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Subject clitics and preverbal negation in European French: Variation, acquisition, diatopy and diachrony

Cited by 17 publications

References 41 publications

Style in a school community—“Ne” deletion in French preschool

Style in a school community—“Ne” deletion in French preschool

Exclusivity! Wh-fronting is not optional wh-movement in Colloquial French

Category of negation paradigm in diachrony

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