On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader
William J. Ashby
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 226] 2023. xiv, 534 pp.
William J. Ashby
List of John Benjamins publications for which William J. Ashby plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Historical linguistics | Phonology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as architecture for function
Edited by John W. Du Bois, Lorraine E. Kumpf and William J. Ashby
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 14] 2003. ix, 458 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax
Linguistic Perspectives on Romance Languages: Selected Papers from the XXI Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Santa Barbara, February 21–24, 1991
Edited by William J. Ashby, Marianne Mithun and Giorgio Perissinotto
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 103] 1993. xxii, 404 pp.
Subjects Romance linguistics
Articles
2023 The variable use of on ‘one’ versus tu/vous ‘you’ for indefinite reference in Spoken French On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 321–362 | Chapter
The subject clitic on ‘one’ has a surprising range of referential values, both indefinite (e.g., ‘one,’ ‘they-,’ ‘you-’) and definite (e.g., ‘we-’), that can be seen only when one examines the use of the pronoun in natural discourse. This paper proposes a partial typology of on ‘one’ derived from… read more
2023 The loss of the negative particle ne in French: A syntactic change in progress On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 133–150 | Chapter
Negation in French can be marked redundantly – since a pre-verbal particle ne ‘old not’ may accompany a second, usually post-verbal, marker of negation. However, the pre-verbal particle is often deleted in spoken French. This deletion may be inconsistent with the usual typological… read more
2023 Prefixed conjugation in Parisian French On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 113–128 | Chapter
2023 An acoustic profile of right-dislocations in French On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 249–276 | Chapter
This study provides an acoustic profile of the prosody of right-dislocations in French, using the computer hardware and software package known as CECIL. Twenty-eight right-dislocations occurring in a corpus of natural French discourse provide the data for the acoustic analysis. While… read more
2023 French presentational structures On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 389–402 | Chapter
2023 Français du Canada/français de France: Divergence et convergence On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 281–292 | Chapter
2023 The rhythmic group, liaison, nouns and verbs of French On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 67–74 | Chapter
2023 French liaison as a sociolinguistic phenomenon On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 151–162 | Chapter
2023 The loss of the negative morpheme ne in Parisian French On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 79–94 | Chapter
Data from a corpus of upper-middle class Parisian French demonstrate that the omission of the negative morpheme ne in negative structures is most frequent among certain demographic segments of the population. This finding, together with historical evidence, suggests that the optional deletion of… read more
2023 The drift of French syntax On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 181–206 | Chapter
Recent speculation about the drift of French syntax is evaluated against data from a socially diverse corpus of modern French. While the data do not support the theory that French is becoming a VSO language, they do suggest that French is developing a ‘topic prominent’ sentence type. read more
2023 The College of Creative Studies: A graduate school for undergraduates On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 505–516 | Chapter
2023 When does variation indicate linguistic change in progress On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 293–320 | Chapter
It is argued that two variables of Modern French (the negative particle ne ‘old not’ and the consonant l of clitic pronouns such as il ‘(he); 3sg.m.nom-; 3.nom-; iprs-’) are indeed indices of ongoing linguistic change, even though this change appears to be of long duration. This conclusion is… read more
2023 Au sujet de quoi? La fonction du sujet grammatical, du complément d’objet direct, et de la construction présentative en français parlé On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 403–414 | Chapter
2023 The elision of /l/ in Modern French On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 163–176 | Chapter
2023 Il parle or Iparle ? Prefixed inflection in French On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 57–66 | Chapter
2023 Interrogative forms in Parisian French On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 95–112 | Chapter
2023 The syntax, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics of left- and right-dislocations in French On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 207–248 | Chapter
Aspects of the syntax, pragmatics and sociolinguistic distribution of left- and right-dislocations in a corpus of spoken French are treated. Most tokens of both types have clear pragmatic motivation, two functions being common to both, with other functions particular to one or another type. The… read more
2023 A new look at ‘ne’ loss in the Spoken French of Tours: A case of change in progress? On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 419–450 | Chapter
Although the standard French norm prescribes that negation is marked twice in the verb phrase (ne…pas), contemporary usage prefers to drop the first element (ne) in Spoken French. In a 1981 article based on a corpus of Spoken French recorded in Tours in 1976, Ashby brought to light a significant… read more
2023 Preferred Argument Structure in spoken French and Spanish On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 371–388 | Chapter
This article uses the quantitative methodology of GoldVarb to examine the variable distribution of lexical noun phrases representing core arguments of the verb in a corpus of spoken French and a corpus of spoken Spanish. It is shown that this distribution is not random, but instead conforms to a… read more
2023 Remodelling the house: The grammaticalisation of Latin casa to French chez On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 483–504 | Chapter
2003 Preferred Argument Structure across time and space: A comparative diachronic analysis of French and Spanish Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as architecture for function, Du Bois, John W., Lorraine E. Kumpf and William J. Ashby (eds.), pp. 61–80 | Article
2003 Introduction Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as architecture for function, Du Bois, John W., Lorraine E. Kumpf and William J. Ashby (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
1995 French presentational structures Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics: Papers from the XXII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, El Paso/Juárez, February 22–24, 1992, Amastae, Jon, Grant Goodall, M. Montalbetti and M. Phinney (eds.), pp. 91 ff. | Article
1980 Prefixed conjugation in parosian french Italic and Romance: Linguistic studies in honor of Ernst Pulgram, Izzo, Herbert J. (ed.), pp. 195 ff. | Article