Regional vocabulary leveling: The example of south‐eastern French

Violin-Wigent, Anne

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9841.2007.00330.x

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Journal of Sociolinguistics

2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2007.00330.x

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Regional vocabulary leveling: The example of south‐eastern French

Anne Violin-Wigent

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While the research literature on regional dialect levelling is substantial (e.g. Williams and Kerswill 1999; Britain 2002; Watt 2002; Jansen 2019), this process is under-explored and under-theorised when it comes to patterns of lexical usage. Using maid as a case-study, in this article I provide a detailed account of processes of lexical levelling in Cornwall. I consider the usage of maid from two perspectives, that of onomasiology and semasiology. From an onomasiological perspective, maid, as a variant of the concept woman, exhibits socio-stylistic reallocation, with attested usages of maid in this study being limited to older speakers in careful speech styles. From a semasiological perspective, two senses of maid, ‘woman’ and ‘female servant or attendant’, have undergone structural reallocation in apparent-time with maid ‘woman’ being the prototypical sense for older speakers but a more peripheral sense for their younger counterparts.

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Maidin Cornwall

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Tu lui les as donnés ?

Violin-Wigent

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Tuaillon (1983) claims that variation in the order of third-person multiple object pronouns is a "clear regionalism" from the lower Rhone valley. To investigate this phenomenon in Briançon, a small town in southeastern France, 41 participants from this area filled out an acceptability judgment questionnaire, evaluating sentences with such pronouns in different orders. The results of statistical tests show that, even though participants prefer the standard French order, they also accept the reversed order (standard 'le lui' vs. reversed 'lui le'). The analysis also suggests a change in apparent time (which seems to coincide with economic and social changes in the region since WWII) as well as age grading.

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Regional vocabulary leveling: The example of south‐eastern French

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Maidin Cornwall

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Tu lui les as donnés ?

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