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- Title
Morphosyntactic and phonological constraints on negative particle variation in French-language chat discourse.
- Abstract
ABSTRACTThis study investigates the variable presence or absence of the negative morpheme nein online French-language chat environments. The data indicate an overwhelming preference for the omission of nein most instances of verbal negation, which corroborates previous studies of nein everyday conversational French. VARBRUL analyses revealed four principal results: (i) subject type (i.e., noun phrase [NP], pronoun, or inferred subject) is the most influential factor; (ii) NPs favor nepresence irrespective of the conditioning factors considered in this study; (iii) the variable presence of neis conditioned by phonological factors within the subject pronoun category; (iv) the type of second-negative present (i.e., pasvs. second-negative other than pas) influences neretention in inferred subject environments.
- Subjects
FRENCH phonology; MORPHEMICS; PRONOUNS (Grammar); NOUN phrases (Grammar); MORPHOSYNTAX; ONLINE chat; CONVERSATION
- Publication
Language Variation & Change, 2008, Vol 20, Issue 2, p317
- ISSN
0954-3945
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0954394508000112