Hélène Blondeau
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hélène Blondeau is involved.
Articles
2013 Advancing the change? Contact-induced influences and inherent tendencies in variation among pronouns with indefinite reference in Quebec French The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings, Léglise, Isabelle and Claudine Chamoreau (eds.), pp. 53–76 | Article
This article examines a change under way in French in contact with English in Quebec, namely the variation among on ‘one’, tu ‘you’, and vous ‘you’ to express indefinite reference. The variationist analysis of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec French data highlights how the usage of… read more
2008 The dynamics of pronouns in the Québec languages in contact dynamics Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), pp. 249–271 | Article
This article examines three zones of variation in the French pronoun paradigm in relation to the general issue of language contact in Québec. Three variables, associated with language change in contemporary Montreal French, are analyzed: (1) variation between the pronouns on ‘one’ and nous ‘we’… read more
2008 Subordinate clause marking in Montreal Anglophone French and English Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), pp. 273–313 | Article
We investigate the variable presence of overt complementizers in the bilingual repertoire of young Anglophone Montrealers, examining approximately 1,600 sentences in spoken French and English. The effects of linguistic constraints are compared between their two languages, and also to recent… read more