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Title
Subject doubling in spoken French
Description
The purpose of this study is to explore the syntax and pragmatics of subject doubling in spoken French. Many prescriptivists have considered it a redundant and ungrammatical form, but over the years, it has gained more interest from syntacticians. It is widely acknowledged that dislocations involve topics, but the position of these structures is very disputed. Some linguists believe in base generation while others state there is movement. The status of subject clitics also comes into play and their role as arguments or agreement markers is crucial to understanding the issues at stake with a topic analysis. It is often argued that the clitics are undergoing a linguistic cycle whereby they lose their function of argument, and need to be reinforced by disjunct pronouns. In this study, I examined which analyses support my data and I attempted to determine what structures tend to be most dislocated by looking at the environment of the discourse in a corpus of spoken French.
Date Created
2012
Contributors
- Blanquart, Eleonore (Author)
- Ossipov, Helene (Thesis advisor)
- Bahtchevanova, Mariana (Thesis advisor)
- Gelderen, Elly van (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
iv, 45 p. : ill
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14860
Statement of Responsibility
by Eleonore Blanquart
Description Source
Retrieved on April 12, 2013
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2012
Field of study: French
System Created
- 2012-08-24 06:24:11
System Modified
- 2021-08-30 01:46:57
- 3 years 2 months ago
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