Word order variation in French interrogative structures
1999 ◽
Vol 125-126
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pp. 161-180
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Abstract Inter-individual variation in the use of direct interrogative structures (N = 450) is explored in a corpus of spoken native and non-native French. A quantitative analysis of the data reveals that while non-native speakers seem to avoid non-standard structures, they do not use more formal variants systematically. Comparison with data from other native and non-native corpora reveals important differences in the frequency of particular interrogative structures. The choice of interrogative structure seems to be influenced by a number of situational, pragmatic and socio-stylistic variables.
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2009 ◽
Vol 13
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pp. 365-384
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2015 ◽
Vol 23
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pp. 63-90
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