Publications

Publication details [#41220]

Coveney, Aidan. 2004. The alternation between l'on and on in spoken French. Journal of French Language Studies 14 (2) : 91–112.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | dialect1 | sociolinguistics | spoken language

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

www.journals.cup.org

Annotation

This analysis of the alternation between the use of l'on and on in spoken French, deals with l'on as a sociolinguistic variable, and examines the historical, dialectal and cross-linguistic background and the traditional ‘rules’ for the use of l'on.