Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-5nwft Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-04T23:55:18.471Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Patterns of analogy in the Canadian French verb system*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

Douglas C. Walker
Douglas C. Walker
Affiliation:
Dept. of French, Italian and Spanish, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N. W., Calgary, Alberta, CanadaT2N 1N4
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Study of a large number of aberrant verb forms (‘écarts de la norme’) in Canadian French reveals a variety of pressures, paradigm levelling, markedness reduction and iconicity in particular, affecting the inflectional structures. These verb forms, when seen in the light of the theoretical proposals of Natural Morphology, permit a ranking of naturalness principles within that approach and contribute to proposals for the resolution of ‘naturalness conflicts’.

Type
Articles
Information
Journal of French Language Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 85 - 107
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Anttila, Raimo (1972). An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics. New York: MacMillan.Google Scholar
Bauer, Laurie (1988). Introducing Linguistic Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Google Scholar
Bybee, Joan (1980). Morphophonemic change from inside and outside the paradigm. Lingua, 50: 45–59.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bybee, Joan (1985). Morphology: a Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form. Amsterdam: Benjamins.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bybee, Joan (1988). Morphology as lexical organization. In Hammond, Michael and Noonan, Michael (eds.), Theoretical Morphology: Approaches in Modern Linguistics. Orlando: Academic Press, 119–141.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bybee, Joan and Brewer, Mary (1980). Explanation in morphophonemics: changes in Provençal and Spanish preterite forms. Lingua, 52: 201–242.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Carstairs, Andrew (1987). Allomorphy in Inflexion. London: Croom Helm.Google Scholar
Dressler, Wolfgang, Mayerthaler, Willi, Panagl, Oswald and Wurzel, Wolfgang (1987). Leitmotifs in Natural Morphology. Amsterdam: Benjamins.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dubois, Jean (1967). Grammaire structurale du français: le verbe. Paris: Larousse.Google Scholar
Gertner, Michael (1973). The Morphology of the French Verb. The Hague: Mouton.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Isaac, Luc (1985). Calcul de la flexion verbale en français contemporain. Geneva: Droz.Google Scholar
Kilani-Schoch, Marianne (1988). Introduction à la morphologie naturelle. Berne: Lang.Google Scholar
Klausenburger, Jurgen (1986). Two aspects of morphological naturalness. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 31(4): 327–342.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Klausenburger, Jurgen (1990). Geometry in morphology: the Old French case system. Zeitschrift für Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikationsforschung, 43: 327–333.Google Scholar
Klausenburger, Jurgen (1992 a). Explaining French morphology ‘naturally’. Romance Philology, 45(3): 410–422.Google Scholar
Klausenburger, Jurgen (1992 b). The morphology of schwa in the history of French. Lingua, 86: 223–233.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Martinet, André (1958). De l'économie des formes du verbe en français parlé. In Hatcher, Anna G. and Selig, Karl L. (eds.), Studia philologica et litteraria in honorem L. Spitzer. Berne: Francke, 309–326.Google Scholar
Martinet, André (1979). Grammaire fonctionnelle du français. Paris: Crédif.Google Scholar
Mayerthaler, Willi (1981). Morphologische Natürlichkeit. Wiesbaden: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion.Google Scholar
Mayerthaler, Willi (1988). Morphological Naturalness. Ann Arbor: Karoma.Google Scholar
Morin, Yves-Charles (1986). Remarques sur l'organisation de la flexion des verbes français. ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 77–78: 13–91.Google Scholar
Paradis, Carole and El Fenne, Fatimazohra (to appear). French verbal inflection revisited: constraints, repairs and floating consonants. To appear in Durand, J., Hintze, M.-A. and Battye, A. (eds.), New Trends in French Phonology and Phonetics.Google Scholar
Pichon, Edouard (1942). Les Principes de la suffixation en français. Paris: D'Artrey.Google Scholar
Pinchon, Jacqueline and Coute, Bernard (1981). Le Système verbal du français: description et applications pédagogiques. Paris: Nathan.Google Scholar
Poplack, Shana (1989). The care and handling of a mega-corpus: the Ottawa-Hull French project. In Fasold, Ralph and Schiffrin, Deborah (eds.), Language Change and Variation. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 411–451.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Poplack, Shana, Sankoff, David and Miller, Christopher (1988). The social correlates and linguistic processes of lexical borrowing and assimilation. Linguistics, 26: 47–104.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Poplack, Shana and Walker, Douglas (1986). Going through (1) in Canadian French. In Sankoff, David (ed.), Diversity and Diachrony. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 173–198.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sankoff, David, Poplack, Shana and Vanniarajan, Swathi (1990). The case of the nonce loan in Tamil. Linguistic Variation and Change, 2: 71–101.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schane, Sanford (1968). French Phonology and Morphology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
Séguin, Hubert (1986). Tous les verbes conjugués. Montreal: Centre Educatif et Culturel.Google Scholar
Walker, Douglas (1984). The Pronunciation of Canadian French. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.Google Scholar
Wheeler, Max (1993). On the hierarchy of naturalness principles in inflectional morphology. Journal of Linguistics, 29: 95–111.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wurzel, Wolfgang (1989). Inflectional Morphology and Naturalness. Dordrecht: Kluwer.Google Scholar