France Martineau

List of John Benjamins publications for which France Martineau plays a role.

Title

Negation and Polarity: Syntax and semantics. Selected papers from the colloquium Negation: Syntax and Semantics. Ottawa, 11–13 May 1995

Edited by Danielle Forget, Paul Hirschbühler, France Martineau and María Luisa Rivero

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 155] 1997. viii, 367 pp.

Subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax

Articles

Martineau, France and Sandrine Tailleur. 2014. From local to supra-local: Hybridity in French written documents from the nineteenth century. Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective, Rutten, Gijsbert, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 223–248

This article discusses the ‘hybrid’ writing practices of two socially distinct (groups of) writers from nineteenth century French Canada; we specifically focus on their acceptance of (supra-)local language norms. We argue that the writers from the well-known bourgeois Papineau family progressively… read more | Article

Martineau, France. 2013. Written documents: What they tell us about linguistic usage. Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents, Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), pp. 129–148

This paper explains why large historical sociolinguistic corpora are needed to interpret traces of spoken features through the written medium. To support this, the eighteenth-century personal diary of a small merchant is compared with other documents to show that the diary displays a number of… read more | Article

Martineau, France. 2009. Modeling change: A historical sociolinguistics perspective on French negation. Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics, Kawaguchi, Yuji, Makoto Minegishi and Jacques Durand (eds.), pp. 159–178

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Déprez, Viviane and France Martineau. 2004. Micro-Parametric Variation and Negative Concord. Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Bloomington, Indiana, April 2003, Auger, Julie, J. Clancy Clements and Barbara Vance (eds.), pp. 139–158

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Martineau, France and Virginia Motapanyane. 2000. Infinitive Subordinators and Verb Restructuring in French. New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance historical linguistics, Dworkin, Steven N. and Dieter Wanner (eds.), pp. 217 ff.

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Martineau, France and Virginia Motapanyane. 1996. Hypothetical infinitives and crosslinguistic variation in continental and Québec French. Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation, Black, James R. and Virginia Motapanyane (eds.), pp. 145 ff.

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Martineau, France. 1992. The Evolution of Complements of French Causative and Perception Verbs. Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from the XX Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Ottawa, April 10–14, 1990, Hirschbühler, Paul and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 161 ff.

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Martineau, France. 1991. Clitic Climbing in Infinitival Constructions of Middle French. New Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XVIII, Urbana-Champaign, April 7–9, 1988, Wanner, Dieter and Douglas A. Kibbee (eds.), pp. 235 ff.

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Martineau, France. 1989. Les Clitiques en et Y dans les Causatives en Faire. Lingvisticæ Investigationes 13:2, pp. 333–350

It is proposed that, in French causative constructions, the clitic is attached to the verb which governs it and that the embedded verb cannot govern its complements after having been preposed. The clitics en and y, when associated with positions which are subcategorized by the embedded verb, can be… read more | Article