What is it about?
New quotatives with similar meanings to English BE LIKE are emerging in many languages. We show for the first time that for one language, French, the new quotatives are not borrowings from English but have developed independently from French sources.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show the pathways that new expressions follow as they emerge in a language. They contribute to our understanding of how language innovations begin and how they spread through the language system.
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This page is a summary of: The origins of new quotative expressions: the case of Paris French, Journal of French Language Studies, July 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0959269518000029.
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