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Subject: Doubly filled CP in Quebec French question.
Question:
I am interested in subject extraction (long and local). I have observed that Standard French allows local animate subject extraction:

''Qui vient?'' (Who is coming?)

but disallows local inanimate subject extraction:

'' * Que/quoi fait ce bruit?'' ( What is making this noise?)

I would like to know if the situation is different in varieties that allow doubly filled CP.

According to what I have read so far (Léard,JM erudit.org) Quebec French allows :

''Qui qui vient?'' but ''Quoi qui fait ce bruit?'' is judged slightly degraded.
( ''quoi que tu fais''' and ''qui que tu regardes?'' being equally good)

I am extremly interested in any confirmation or further comment on these data.

Many thanks for your attention.

Heidi

From: Heidi
Date: Sep-01-2009
Replies:
  1. Re: Doubly filled CP in Quebec French question. Charley Rowe   (Sep-04-2009)
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