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Larrivee, Pierre – 1993
In Quebec French, unlike standard French, sentence negation "pas" ("not") can occur in the same clause as a negative quantifier like "personne" ("nobody"), for instance. This paper proposes that "pas" in these contexts marks negative association in the same way that "ne" does in standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, French Canadians, Language Patterns