The Distributed Morphology of Object Clitics in Modern French

Goldbach, Maria

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“…Foulet 1924, Hirschbühler and Labelle 2001, Goldbach 2007 1985: 376ff.). Since the classical period at the latest, in proclitic position, the dative precedes the accusative (il me le donne), except for the case of two third person clitics, while it is the contrary in enclitic position (donne-le-moi).…”

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“…Heap/Kaminskaïa 2001, Goldbach 2007, Rezac 2010) that attempt to capture the limits of variation and to explain standard and alternating orders. More traditionally, the following four phenomena, which we will focus on exclusively in what follows, have mainly been considered as regional or stylistic variants in many descriptive approaches to French (standard variants in bold):…”

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“…morphophonological one, based on morphological processes and phonological incompatibilities / repairs (see e.g. Bonet 1991, 1995for Catalan, Miller/Sag 1997, Miller/Monachesi 2003, Bonami/Boyé 2007, Goldbach 2007, Pescarini 2014, to name but a few). Rezac (2010: 153, and section 3 on the variation illustrated in our examples (1)) provides sufficient evidence for the nonsyntactic nature of many restrictions and variations within French clitic clusters, as opposed to the PCC, which is based on the crucial syntactic difference between internal verbal arguments (*me lui) and extra-argumental datives (me lui possible).…”

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A crowdsourcing approach to the description of regional variation in French object clitic clusters

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Stark

2017

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Our contribution is dedicated to the empirical testing of alleged regional variants of object clitic clusters in modern French in France, Belgium and Switzerland. We provide some intriguing new insights into the regional distribution of non-standard variants and discuss one hypothesis on their nature and two hypotheses to explain their coming into being: language-contact (with Francoprovençal, Occitan and Oïl dialects, H1) and/or analogical leveling (H2), on the one hand, and their postsyntactic, rather than syntactic, nature, on the other (H3). Our main results reveal that the three non-standard variants where order in object clitic clusters is concerned are not regionally well-distributed, i.e. the observed distribution does not correspond to any cohesive area. In contrast, only one variant where the selection of the form (me vs. moi) is at issue seems to be regionally confined: it is found in French-speaking Switzerland, in Gascony, plus some rare attestations of it in the North of France. All in all, variation in object clitic clusters indicates a genuinely new geographical articulation of regional French that does not coincide with traditional dialectal areas. A crowdsourcing approach to the description of regional variation in French object clitic clustersOur contribution is dedicated to the empirical testing of alleged regional variants of object clitic clusters in modern French in France, Belgium and Switzerland. We provide some intriguing new insights into the regional distribution of non-standard variants and discuss one hypothesis on their nature and two hypotheses to explain their coming into being: language-contact (with Francoprovençal, Occitan and Oïl dialects, H1) and/or analogical leveling (H2), on the one hand, and their postsyntactic, rather than syntactic, nature, on the other (H3). Our main results reveal that the three non-standard variants where order in object clitic clusters is concerned are not regionally well-distributed, i.e. the observed distribution does not correspond to any cohesive area. In contrast, only one variant where the selection of the form (me vs. moi) is at issue seems to be regionally confined: it is found in French-speaking Switzerland, in Gascony, plus some rare attestations of it in the North of France. All in all, variation in object clitic clusters indicates a genuinely new geographical articulation of regional French that does not coincide with traditional dialectal areas.

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“…La réponse (i), qui correspond à la forme décrite dans les grammaires de référence, représente 84,4% des réponses choisies par les participants, devant la réponse (ii) et la réponse (iii) (14% et 1,6%, respectivement). L'analyse des réponses (ii) et (iii) permet en revanche de préciser le statut de ces tournures que l'on décrit comme « non-standard » dans la littérature (Dauzat 1930 ;Goldbach 2007). En ce qui concerne la tournure rends-moi-le, il apparait qu'elle est nettement moins fréquente en Suisse romande et en Belgique qu'en France.…”

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Barbet

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Résumé. Dans cette contribution, nous présentons les premiers résultats d'une enquête visant à étudier la vitalité et l'aire d'extension de certains régionalismes du français parlé en Europe. Un questionnaire a été proposé et diffusé via les médias sociaux, mettant ainsi à profit la méthode dite du crowdsourcing, qui a permis de recueillir les réponses de plus de 10 000 francophones. L'enquête porte principalement sur des items lexicaux mais inclut également des régionalismes grammaticaux, plus rarement étudiés. Cet article présente les principes qui ont motivé la mise au point de cette enquête, la structure du questionnaire, les participants, ainsi que quelques résultats préliminaires. Nous nous interesserons ici en particulier à des faits linguistiques bien connus (l'idée étant de comparer nos données aux éléments fournis par les dictionnaires de régionalismes traditionnels). Nous présenterons une douzaine de questions du sondage, en précisant la tâche proposée et une visualisation des réponses sous forme de cartes. En regard des travaux précédents, plusieurs cas de figure se dessinent : certains régionalismes restent bien employés, alors que d'autres semblent en perte de vitesse. Dans d'autres cas, l'aire d'extension des variantes à l'étude est tellement large qu'on ne peut y voir un fait de variation régionale.Abstract. This paper presents the first results of a large survey which aimed at investigating the vitality and extension area of some regional expressions in spoken French in Europe. We took advantage of social media to broadcast our survey, using the crowdsourcing method. Therefore, we were able to gather responses from more than 10'000 French native speakers from France, Belgium and Switzerland. The survey not only investigates regional lexicon, but also regional syntactic features which have remained under-studied. In this paper, we explain how the survey has been built: its motivation, its structure, its participants; we also present preliminary results. We focus on the usual suspects: one of our aims is to compare our results with what specialised dictionaries generally state. We present a dozen questions of the survey with their results shown on maps. Compared to previous studies, our maps make clear that whereas the use of some regional expressions is enduring, the use of others is diminishing. Furthermore, the use of some items is distributed in such large areas that it makes difficult to continue considering them as regional variants., Web of Conferences 03001 (2016)

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The Distributed Morphology of Object Clitics in Modern French

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A crowdsourcing approach to the description of regional variation in French object clitic clusters

A crowdsourcing approach to the description of regional variation in French object clitic clusters

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