"J'ai tout le temps eu de misère": A Variationist Study of Adverb Placement in Quebec French

This study investigates variable positioning of adverbs in compound verb tenses in vernacular Quebec French using the sociolinguistic framework of Variation Theory (Weinreich et al. 1968; Labov 1969). While variable adverb placement is addressed in both the prescriptive and linguistic literature, wh...

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Main Author: Lealess, Allison V.
Other Authors: Poplack, Shana
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31163
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-3747