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Автор Wagner, Suzanne Evans
Автор Sankoff, Gillian
Дата выпуска 2011
dc.description AbstractThe rise of the periphrastic future (PF) at the expense of the inflected future (IF) is an established historical trend in Québécois French over at least the past 150 years. Previous research has also found higher rates of PF among younger speakers, many displaying categorical use in affirmative contexts. Because an apparent time interpretation of the synchronic data fits the historical record, we expected concomitant speaker stability across the lifespan. On the contrary, our panel study of 60 Montréal speakers (1971–1984) reveals age grading in a retrograde direction. As they aged, two-thirds of the speakers we studied increased their frequency of IF, an effect heightened for members of higher socioprofessional groups. Though not sufficiently robust to stem the historical tide, increased IF use by older speakers may retard the change somewhat, providing continuing IF input to child L1 acquisition. Rather than vitiating an apparent time interpretation, these results indicate that the rate of change may be slightly overestimated if age grading acts in a retrograde direction.
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Издатель Cambridge University Press
Копирайт Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011
Название Age grading in the Montréal French inflected future
Тип research-article
DOI 10.1017/S0954394511000111
Electronic ISSN 1469-8021
Print ISSN 0954-3945
Журнал Language Variation and Change
Том 23
Первая страница 275
Последняя страница 313
Аффилиация Wagner Suzanne Evans; Michigan State University
Аффилиация Sankoff Gillian; University of Pennsylvania
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