Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber

List of John Benjamins publications in which Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber is involved.

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On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader

William J. Ashby

This scholarly edition invites us to reconsider our assumptions about the French language, by showcasing the oeuvre of one of the pioneers of diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics, William J. Ashby, and the ground-breaking findings to come out of his influential Tours corpora (1976 & 1995),… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 226] 2023. xiv, 534 pp.

Articles (19) | Order by:

Ashby, William J. and Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber 2023 Variable liaison in the Spoken French of Tours: A real-time analysis: Conference paper presented at Association for French Language Studies. L’Université de Tours. Tours, France. September 25, 2003 On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 451–474 | Chapter

Ashby, William J. and Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber 2023 A new look at ‘ne’ loss in the Spoken French of Tours: A case of change in progress? On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 419–450 | Chapter

Although the standard French norm prescribes that negation is marked twice in the verb phrase (ne…pas), contemporary usage prefers to drop the first element (ne) in Spoken French. In a 1981 article based on a corpus of Spoken French recorded in Tours in 1976, Ashby brought to light a significant… read more

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2023 William J. Ashby – A pioneer in diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics: An introduction On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 1–28 | Chapter

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2023 A data-driven glossing philosophy of Spoken French: Variable, radical prefixal glossing On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 29–54 | Chapter

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2023 Section 8. Coda: The next generation or passing the torch On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 479–516 | Section header

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2023 Section 6. Discourse grammar: Preferred Argument Structure & presentatives: Beyond “The French Department”: Dances with linguists and other languages On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 365–414 | Section header

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2023 Section 4. Understanding language change: Whither Spoken French? And how one thing leads to another… On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 179–278 | Section header

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2023 Section 1. In the beginning was the Word…: But what is a word? And how do we know? Les débuts – Les questions éternelles On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 55–76 | Section header

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2023 Section 7. L’envoi – Language change in real-time: Ashby’s Second Corpus, Tours-2, or What’s changed in Tours? Closing arguments – The culmination of a career On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 417–477 | Section header

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2023 Section 2. A paradigm shift or what counts as evidence now? The early writings – Parisian French and the Malécot corpus On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 77–130 | Section header

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2023 Section 5. Knowing how to ask good research questions: Divergence/convergence and language variation & change in progress: Or recognizing the legitimacy of Canadian French for understanding the larger picture On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 279–364 | Section header

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2023 Section 3. Language change in apparent time – Tours-1: A scholar comes of age: The Tours Corpus and the Language Article On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 131–178 | Section header

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2023 Appendix. An incomplete list of Spoken French Corpora through the years On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader, Ashby, William J., pp. 519–528 | Appendix

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2017 Chapter 5. Discourse-pragmatic change and emphatic negation in Spoken French: Or coming full circle The Pragmatics of Negation: Negative meanings, uses and discursive functions, Roitman, Malin (ed.), pp. 123–146 | Chapter

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2010 Review of Truchot (2008): Europe: l’enjeu linguistique Language Problems and Language Planning 34:1, pp. 86–87 | Review

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. 2009 Review of Valdman & Iskrova (2007): Haitian Creole-English Bilingual Dictionary Language Problems and Language Planning 33:3, pp. 267–268 | Review

Waugh, Linda R., Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber, Caroline Vickers and Betil Eröz 2007 Multiple empirical approaches to a complex analysis of discourse Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, Gonzalez-Marquez, Monica, Irene Mittelberg †, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey (eds.), pp. 120–148 | Article

Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie B. and Linda R. Waugh 2003

The subject clitics of European Conversational French:

Morphologization, grammatical change, semantic change, and change

in progress

A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use: Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001, Núñez-Cedeño, Rafael, Luis López and Richard Cameron (eds.), pp. 99–118 | Article

Adamson, H.D., Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber, Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Vincent Scardino and Shoji Takano 1996 Tense Marking in the English of Spanish-speaking Adolescents Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation, Bayley, Robert and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 121–134 | Article