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Publication details [#32541]

Coveney, Aidan. 2003. 'Anything you can do, tu can do better': tu and vous as substitutes for indefinite on in French. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7 (2) : 164–191.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language use | personal pronoun | reference

Language as a subject

French | French, Montreal

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

1360-6441

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper deals with the use of French second person pronouns with indefinite reference -tu, vous- in Montreal, Tours and Picardy.