Publications

Publication details [#5837]

Laberge, Suzanne and Gillian Sankoff. 1979. Anything 'you' can do. In Givón, Talmy, ed. Syntax and semantics 12: Discourse and Syntax. Academic Press. pp. 419–440.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse progression | functional constraint | indefinite pronoun | language proficiency

Language as a subject

French, Quebecois

Annotation

On the French personal pronouns 'on' vs. 'tu' and 'vous', and their relationships to syntactic and pragmatic types and constraints, speakers' repertoires and sequential considerations.