Preferred Argument Structure in spoken French and Spanish

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Dedications v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Portrait xi
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. William J. Ashby – A pioneer in diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics 1
7. A data-driven glossing philosophy of Spoken French 29
8. Section 1. In the beginning was the Word…
9. Editor’s note 56
10. Il parle or Iparle ? 57
11. The rhythmic group, liaison, nouns and verbs of French 67
12. The Ashby legacy 75
13. Section 2. A paradigm shift or what counts as evidence now?
14. Editor’s note – Section 2 78
15. The loss of the negative morpheme ne in Parisian French 79
16. Interrogative forms in Parisian French 95
17. Prefixed conjugation in Parisian French 113
18. The Ashby legacy 129
19. Section 3. Language change in apparent time – Tours-1
20. Editor’s note – Section 3 132
21. The loss of the negative particle ne in French 133
22. French liaison as a sociolinguistic phenomenon 151
23. The elision of /l/ in Modern French 163
24. The Ashby legacy 177
25. Section 4. Understanding language change
26. Editor’s Note – Section 4 180
27. The drift of French syntax 181
28. The syntax, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics of left- and right-dislocations in French 207
29. An acoustic profile of right-dislocations in French 249
30. The Ashby legacy 277
31. Section 5. Knowing how to ask good research questions
32. Editor’s note – Section 5 280
33. Français du Canada/français de France 281
34. When does variation indicate linguistic change in progress 293
35. The variable use of on ‘one’ versus tu/vous ‘you’ for indefinite reference in Spoken French 321
36. The Ashby legacy 363
37. Section 6. Discourse grammar: Preferred Argument Structure & presentatives
38. Editor’s note – Section 6 366
39. Preferred Argument Structure in spoken French and Spanish 371
40. French presentational structures 389
41. Au sujet de quoi? 403
42. The Ashby legacy 415
43. Section 7. L’envoi – Language change in real-time
44. Editor’s Note – Section 7 418
45. A new look at ‘ne’ loss in the Spoken French of Tours 419
46. Variable liaison in the Spoken French of Tours: A real-time analysis 451
47. The Ashby legacy 475
48. Section 8. Coda
49. Editor’s note – Section 8 480
50. Remodelling the house 483
51. The College of Creative Studies 505
52. The Ashby legacy 517
53. Appendix. An incomplete list of Spoken French Corpora through the years 519
54. Author index 529
55. Subject and language index 532