International audienceIn this contribution, we show that the evolution of certain constructions, that appear in parallel in several languages, can be accounted for by a set of internal causes (e.g. meaning of the terms involved) and external causes (e.g. language contact). Two phenomena will be considered: (i) a morphological innovation: the more and more prevalent use of the noun bébé ‘baby’ as a word formant (bébé-singe ‘baby-monkey’ or bébé-légume ‘baby-vegetable’), with more or less a diminutive value; (ii) a phenomenon of syntactic innovation – or evolution: the more and more diversified uses of nouns such as genre ‘genus, kind’, type ‘type’, or, to a lesser extent, espèce ‘species, kind’, in French, but also of their equivalents in ot...
Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions an...
International audienceSome francophone areas are particularly prone to language variation owing to t...
This paper deals with the nature of linguistic change, and, taking examples from the history of Engl...
International audienceIn this contribution, we show that the evolution of certain constructions, tha...
https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/rql/1988-v17-n1-rql2929/602611ar/International audienceThe typologi...
Il est communément admis que le contact linguistique provoque la convergence grammaticale. L’objecti...
It is not possible to explain what happens to French syntax in a situation of close contact with one...
Standard and non-standard variations relating to object clitics in the French spoken in French Guian...
Il est communément admis que le contact linguistique provoque la convergence grammaticale. L’object...
International audience“Borrowing”, i.e. transferring lexical units from one language to another, is ...
Corpus-based studies in the field of word-formation have looked at translated language with the aim ...
Taking the cue from the definition of term variant as “an utterance which is semantically and concep...
There are three - and only three - mechanisms of grammatical change: Reanalysis (including the diffe...
L'emergence d'un concept nouveau, d'une idee ou d'un objet impose de lui attribuer un signe pour lui...
The replication of concrete formal-structural material (morpho-phonological forms with attached mean...
Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions an...
International audienceSome francophone areas are particularly prone to language variation owing to t...
This paper deals with the nature of linguistic change, and, taking examples from the history of Engl...
International audienceIn this contribution, we show that the evolution of certain constructions, tha...
https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/rql/1988-v17-n1-rql2929/602611ar/International audienceThe typologi...
Il est communément admis que le contact linguistique provoque la convergence grammaticale. L’objecti...
It is not possible to explain what happens to French syntax in a situation of close contact with one...
Standard and non-standard variations relating to object clitics in the French spoken in French Guian...
Il est communément admis que le contact linguistique provoque la convergence grammaticale. L’object...
International audience“Borrowing”, i.e. transferring lexical units from one language to another, is ...
Corpus-based studies in the field of word-formation have looked at translated language with the aim ...
Taking the cue from the definition of term variant as “an utterance which is semantically and concep...
There are three - and only three - mechanisms of grammatical change: Reanalysis (including the diffe...
L'emergence d'un concept nouveau, d'une idee ou d'un objet impose de lui attribuer un signe pour lui...
The replication of concrete formal-structural material (morpho-phonological forms with attached mean...
Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions an...
International audienceSome francophone areas are particularly prone to language variation owing to t...
This paper deals with the nature of linguistic change, and, taking examples from the history of Engl...