Title: On Spoken French
Subtitle: An Ashby Reader
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 226
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.226

Author: William J. Ashby
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027212894 Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027212894 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027212894 Price: Europe EURO 116.60
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027254894 Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027254894 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027254894 Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Abstract:

This scholarly edition invites us to reconsider our assumptions about the French language, by showcasing the oeuvre of one of the pioneers of diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics, William J. Ashby, and the ground-breaking findings to come out of his influential Tours corpora (1976 & 1995), including two real-time studies appearing for the first time in English translation. To help readers visualize just how radically different the morphosyntax, morphophonology, and semantics of Spoken French are from French-on-the-page, the editor has developed a glossing framework, designed to capture the systemic, radically-prefixal morphology of Spoken French and the variability of change-in-progress. The model, presented here and used to gloss the examples from the Tours corpus, is also suitable for corpus-tagging. The volume is organized into sections preceded by an Editor’s note and followed by suggestions for further reading, and closes with an appendix of French corpora. This scholarly edition was written for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the field.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Phonology

Written In: English (eng)

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