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Spithoff, Margerita (2018)

La chute et le maintien du ne de la négation en français parlé contemporain

Master thesis | Linguistics (MA)

This corpus study explores the use of the particle 'ne' in spoken modern French in relation to a number of linguistic factors, such as morpho-phonological processes and negative polarity contexts. In particular, the study aims to investigate the link between the possible presence/absence of the particle 'ne' and the use of a negative expression as a negative polarity item. This hypothesis was rejected based on a large amount of data, and a new one was suggested in which we suppose that there might be a connection between clitics and the appearance of a null particle 'ne'. The study was based on a very large corpus, ESLO2, and provides a clear overview of the relevant literature and the data examined.

French Negation

Particle 'ne'

Negative Polarity

Morpho-phonological processes

Spoken French

Author

Spithoff, Margerita

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

MA French Language and Linguistics

Supervisors

Rooryck, J.E.C.V.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

fr