Résonance SMS « Jc c koi mé javé pa rèalizé sur le coup ! »

The embedded Wh- in situ clause: French tout court? Les spasmes musculaires incontrôlés, je sais pas c’est quoi (France Info 20/10/21)

“…In fact, we should probably not question the conception of the indirect interrogative as an embedded structure, 6 but rather the conception of embedding as such, that should be made more flexible to match this kind of data. Indeed, there are other embedded structures that do not have a connector, such as the dropping of conjunction que attested in "ordinary" French in Reunion Island (Ledegen 2007a(Ledegen , 2007b):…”

“…), but they nevertheless belong to spoken French in surprisingly many areas throughout the realm of "Francophonie", and can even be held straightforwardly as typical "français tout court" (Blanche-Benveniste 1983). There are plenty of occurrences as unmarked, 'ordinary' utterances in the French spoken in Quebec (Lefebvre & Maisonneuve 1982;Blondeau & Ledegen 2021) or in Reunion Island (Ledegen 2007a(Ledegen , 2007b(Ledegen , 2007c(Ledegen , 2016Ledegen & Martin 2020). Indeed, this convergence may be seen as some kind of an archaism (according to Bartoli's "lateral area/geolinguistic norm effect" (1945)), which would have remained in usage through the historical parallels between these two territories.…”

“…In Reunion Island, the structure is found to belong to everyday French (Ledegen 2007a(Ledegen , 2007b(Ledegen , 2007c(Ledegen , 2016Ledegen & Martin 2020), even more so than the embedded est-ce que. A careful analysis of six hours of recordings in the VALIRUN corpus that contain non-standard embedded interrogatives yields no less than 62 embedded interrogative forms, including 28 standard forms, 27 in situ and 7 with est-ce que (Ledegen 2007a).…”