On Spoken French

• Acknowledgements | pp. xiii–xiv
• William J. Ashby – A pioneer in diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics: An introduction
  Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber | pp. 1–28
• A data-driven glossing philosophy of Spoken French: Variable, radical prefixal glossing
  Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber | pp. 29–54
• Section 1. In the beginning was the Word…: But what is a word? And how do we know? Les débuts – Les questions éternelles
  Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber
• Editor’s note | p. 56
• Il parle or Iparle? Prefixed inflection in French
  William J. Ashby | pp. 57–66
• The rhythmic group, liaison, nouns and verbs of French
  William J. Ashby | pp. 67–74
• The Ashby legacy: Suggestions for further reading – Section 1 | pp. 75–76
• Section 2. A paradigm shift or what counts as evidence now? The early writings – Parisian French and the Malécot corpus
  Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber
• Editor’s note – Section 2 | p. 78
• The loss of the negative morpheme ne in Parisian French
  William J. Ashby | pp. 79–94
• Interrogative forms in Parisian French
  William J. Ashby | pp. 95–112
• Prefixed conjugation in Parisian French
  William J. Ashby | pp. 113–128
• The Ashby legacy: Suggestions for further reading – Section 2 | pp. 129–130
• Section 3. Language change in apparent time – Tours-1: A scholar comes of age: The Tours Corpus and the Language Article
  Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber
• Editor’s note – Section 3 | p. 132
• The loss of the negative particle ne in French: A syntactic change in progress
  William J. Ashby | pp. 133–150
• French liaison as a sociolinguistic phenomenon
  William J. Ashby | pp. 151–162
• The elision of /l/ in Modern French
  William J. Ashby | pp. 163–176
• The Ashby legacy: Suggestions for further reading – Section 3 | pp. 177–178
• Section 4. Understanding language change: Whither Spoken French? And how one thing leads to another…
  Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber
• Editor’s Note – Section 4 | p. 180
• The drift of French syntax
  William J. Ashby | pp. 181–206
• The syntax, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics of left- and right-dislocations in French
  William J. Ashby | pp. 207–248
• An acoustic profile of right-dislocations in French
  William J. Ashby | pp. 249–276
• The Ashby legacy: Suggestions for further reading – Section 4 | pp. 277–278
• Section 5. Knowing how to ask good research questions: Divergence/convergence and language variation & change in progress: Or recognizing the legitimacy of Canadian French for understanding the larger picture
  Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber
• Editor’s note – Section 5 | p. 280
• Français du Canada/français de France: Divergence et convergence
  William J. Ashby | pp. 281–292
• When does variation indicate linguistic change in progress
  William J. Ashby | pp. 293–320
• The variable use of on ‘one’ versus tu/vous ‘you’ for indefinite reference in Spoken French
  William J. Ashby | pp. 321–362
• The Ashby legacy: Suggestions for further reading – Section 5 | pp. 363–364
• Section 6. Discourse grammar: Preferred Argument Structure & presentatives: Beyond “The French Department”: Dances with linguists and other languages
  Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber
• Editor’s note – Section 6 | pp. 366–370
• Preferred Argument Structure in spoken French and Spanish
  William J. Ashby and Paola Bentivoglio | pp. 371–388
• French presentational structures
  William J. Ashby | pp. 389–402
• Au sujet de quoi? La fonction du sujet grammatical, du complément d’objet direct, et de la construction présentative en français parlé
  William J. Ashby | pp. 403–414
• The Ashby legacy: Suggestions for further reading – Section 6 | pp. 415–416
• Section 7. L’envoi – Language change in real-time: Ashby’s Second Corpus, Tours-2, or What’s changed in Tours? Closing arguments – The culmination of a career
  Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber
• Editor’s Note – Section 7 | p. 418
• A new look at ‘ne’ loss in the Spoken French of Tours: A case of change in progress?
  William J. Ashby and Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber | pp. 419–450
• Variable liaison in the Spoken French of Tours: A real-time analysis: Conference paper presented at Association for French Language Studies. L’Université de Tours. Tours, France. September 25, 2003
  William J. Ashby and Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber | pp. 451–474
• The Ashby legacy | pp. 475–478
• Section 8. Coda: The next generation or passing the torch
  Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber
• Editor’s note – Section 8 | pp. 480–482
• Remodelling the house: The grammaticalisation of Latin casa to French chez
  Annette R. Harrison and William J. Ashby | pp. 483–504
• The College of Creative Studies: A graduate school for undergraduates
  William J. Ashby | pp. 505–516
• The Ashby legacy: Suggestions for further reading – Section 8 | pp. 517–518
• Appendix. An incomplete list of Spoken French Corpora through the years
  Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber | pp. 519–528
• Author index | pp. 529–531
• Subject and language index | pp. 532–534

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