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Publication details [#57770]

Levey, Stephen, Karine Groulx and Joseph Roy. 2013. A variationist perspective on discourse-pragmatic change in a contact setting. Language Variation and Change 25 (2) : 225–251.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | language contact | quotative | sociolinguistics | verb

Language as a subject

English, Canadian | French, Canadian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

The emergence of être comme as a quotative verb in Canadian French is a change in progress, but not a wholesale copy of its Canadian English pendant. The latter is even not the preferential motivation for the appearance of this innovation.