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Otheguy, Ricardo – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Prepositions can be found with and without adjacent complements in many forms of popular spoken French. The alternation appears in main clauses ("il veut pas payer pour ca [approximately] il veut pas payer pour" "he doesn't want to pay for [it]") and, though with a more restricted social and geographic distribution, in relative…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Foreign Countries, French, Bilingualism
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Elsig, Martin – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The authors of "Phrase-final prepositions in Quebec French: An empirical study of contact, code-switching and resistance to convergence", Poplack, Zentz & Dion (2011, this issue), henceforth cited as PZD, make a strong case for showing that, in spite of surface similarities, preposition stranding in Canadian French relative clauses…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Sociolinguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Foreign Countries