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Grammatical convergence or microvariation? Subject doubling in English in a French dominant town
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 4 (2019): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 17:1–15 ; 2473-8689 (2019)
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In French, subject doubling is “quite common” (e.g. Nadasdi 1995, Auger 1998, Thibault 1983, Zahler 2014) but in English it is rare (Southard & Muller 1998). Yet when anglophones speak French, they use subject doubling with French patterns (Nagy et al. 2003). In this paper, we analyze subject doubling in English in a bilingual French-English town. Usinga large corpus and statistical modelling, we show that thereis no difference between language groups, and neither sex, education nor job type are significant. The nature of the subject is the major predictor of doubling and there is a significant decrease among middle-aged speakers, suggesting mid-life social pressures on vernacular norms. Although subject doubling is low frequency, it is not stable across generations in the different language origin groups. While subject doubling may be a feature of vernacular dialects more generally, involving marking focus or topic marking as reported in other languages, in Kapuskasing when anglophones use it, they are accommodating to French patterns.
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Canadian English; Canadian French; convergence; language change; language contact; North America; subject doubling; Variationist Sociolinguistics
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URL: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v4i1.4514
http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/4514
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Sociophonetic Variation and Change in Northern Ontario English Vowels
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Is one innovation enough? Leaders, covariation and language change
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Perspectives on linguistic documentation from sociolinguistic research on dialects
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Perspectives on linguistic documentation from sociolinguistic research on dialects
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Syntactic Categories Informing Variationist Analysis: The Case of English Copy-raising
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Why Does Canadian English Use try to but British English Use try and? Let's Try and/to Figure It Out
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Comparative Sociolinguistic Insights in the Evolution of Negation
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In: University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (2015)
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