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Subject:
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Doubly filled CP in Quebec French question.
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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
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Hi. I don't know much about French doubly-filled COMP, but I know who does: Eric Mathieu at Ottawa. You could see his dissertation and other works by him.
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Charley Rowe
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Sep-04-2009
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