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‘Ces grandes dames, ça ne va pas souvent à l’église’: A corpus-based investigation of dislocation featuring co-referent clitic ça

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2019

Emily Linares
Emily Linares*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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Corresponding author. Email: emily.linares@berkeley.edu
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Abstract

Although previous research has documented dislocations in which a dislocated noun phrase (NP) occurs with the co-referent pronoun ça (e.g., Carlier, 1996; Jones, 1996), this study represents the first corpus-driven examination focused on this syntactic construction. In examining examples identified in both an oral and a written corpus, the investigation serves to nuance the association between dislocation and orality (McLaughlin, 2011). The research also interrogates the relationship between dislocations featuring co-referent clitic ça and genericity. The extent to which this construction more frequently signals a pejorative attitude towards certain groups of animate NPs than others is also explored. Finally, this study advances methodological considerations for research on rare syntactic forms.

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Journal of French Language Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , November 2019 , pp. 423 - 441
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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