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Nadasdi, Terry – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Analyzes two variants of subject doubling in Ontario French: a non-doubled variant and a doubled variant containing a clitic agreement marker. It is proposed that the doubled variant is favored when the clitic's default features match those of the subject NP (noun phrase), while lack of matching favors the non-doubled variant.(Author/JL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
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Budzhak-Jones, Svitlana; Poplack, Shana – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1997
Examines the quantitative conditioning of English lone nouns of one language used in discourse in Ukrainian in a Canadian setting. Results yield a synchronic portrait of the integrated loanword, even when it bears no surface indication of that integration, is neither recurrent nor widespread, and has no history of attestation or other status in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries