Aurélia Robert-Tissot

List of John Benjamins publications for which Aurélia Robert-Tissot plays a role.

Articles

Abstract This contribution proposes a comparative analysis of two corpora containing informal and more formal Swiss French: a written corpus of text messages and a corpus of spoken French. We test two hypotheses based on recent approaches to language variation in French. Firstly, we challenge Koch… read more
Stark, Elisabeth and Aurélia Robert-Tissot 2017 Subject drop in Swiss French text messagesRegister Variation and Syntactic Theory, Massam, Diane and Tim Stowell (eds.), pp. 251–271 | Article
In this paper, we present evidence in favour of a syntactic approach to subject drop in Swiss French text messages. Subject drop in our corpus follows patterns found in various so-called "written abbreviated registers" such as diaries, notes etc.: it occurs at the beginning of main sentences and… read more