France Martineau

List of John Benjamins publications in which France Martineau is involved.

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Negation and Polarity: Syntax and semantics. Selected papers from the colloquium Negation: Syntax and Semantics. Ottawa, 11–13 May 1995

Edited by Danielle Forget, Paul Hirschbühler, France Martineau and María Luisa Rivero

In the last decade, there has been a revival of interest regarding negation and polarity, with much cross-fertilization between semantic and syntactic approaches. The papers in the present volume address key issues regarding the syntax and semantics of negation and polarity, including both… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 155] 1997. viii, 367 pp.

Articles (9) | Order by:

Martineau, France and Sandrine Tailleur 2014 From local to supra-local: Hybridity in French written documents from the nineteenth century Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective, Rutten, Gijsbert, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 223–248 | Article

This article discusses the ‘hybrid’ writing practices of two socially distinct (groups of) writers from nineteenth century French Canada; we specifically focus on their acceptance of (supra-)local language norms. We argue that the writers from the well-known bourgeois Papineau family progressively… read more

Martineau, France 2013 Written documents: What they tell us about linguistic usage Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents, Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), pp. 129–148 | Article

This paper explains why large historical sociolinguistic corpora are needed to interpret traces of spoken features through the written medium. To support this, the eighteenth-century personal diary of a small merchant is compared with other documents to show that the diary displays a number of… read more

Martineau, France 2009 Modeling change: A historical sociolinguistics perspective on French negation Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics, Kawaguchi, Yuji, Makoto Minegishi and Jacques Durand (eds.), pp. 159–178 | Article

Déprez, Viviane and France Martineau 2004 Micro-Parametric Variation and Negative Concord Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Bloomington, Indiana, April 2003, Auger, Julie, J. Clancy Clements and Barbara Vance (eds.), pp. 139–158 | Article

Martineau, France and Virginia Motapanyane 2000 Infinitive Subordinators and Verb Restructuring in French New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance historical linguistics, Dworkin, Steven N. and Dieter Wanner (eds.), pp. 217–232 | Chapter

Martineau, France and Virginia Motapanyane 1996 Hypothetical infinitives and crosslinguistic variation in continental and Québec French Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation, Black, James R. and Virginia Motapanyane (eds.), pp. 145–168 | Article

Martineau, France 1992 The Evolution of Complements of French Causative and Perception Verbs Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from the XX Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Ottawa, April 10–14, 1990, Hirschbühler, Paul and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 161–174 | Article

Martineau, France 1991 Clitic Climbing in Infinitival Constructions of Middle French New Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XVIII, Urbana-Champaign, April 7–9, 1988, Wanner, Dieter and Douglas A. Kibbee (eds.), pp. 235–252 | Article

Martineau, France 1989 Les Clitiques en et Y dans les Causatives en Faire Lingvisticæ Investigationes 13:2, pp. 333–350 | Article

It is proposed that, in French causative constructions, the clitic is attached to the verb which governs it and that the embedded verb cannot govern its complements after having been preposed. The clitics en and y, when associated with positions which are subcategorized by the embedded verb, can… read more