L'accord sujet-verbe en français contemporain: une étude de cas – <i>la/une foule</i>
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01/12/2015
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This article presents an analysis of synchronic variation and diachronic change in verbal agreement with the French noun <i>foule</i>. This noun, like many collective nouns in French and other languages, can show variation between singular and plural verbal agreement (<i>la foule des habitants exulte</i><sub>SING</sub><i> de joie dans les rues</i> vs. <i>une foule de gens pressés s'attardent</i><sub>PLU</sub>). A novel combination of data, including data from sociolinguistic interviews, a gap-fill exercise, and a corpus of written French, is used to investigate this variation and change, to elucidate some of the factors that play a role in this type of agreement, and to examine the differences between this form used with the definite and indefinite determiner (<i>la foule </i>vs. <i>une foule</i>). Some theoretical issues concerning the definition of collective nouns are also addressed. |
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eng |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess |
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Tristram , A 2015 , ' L'accord sujet-verbe en français contemporain: une étude de cas – la/une foule ' Revue Romane , vol 50 , no. 2 , pp. 191-221 . DOI: 10.1075/rro.50.2.02tri |
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