Adverbs with preposition and adjective in Saguenay–Lac-St-Jean (Quebec) based on field research: individual portraits - Project Materials

For the analysis of language variation, observing the competition between different types of adverbs and adverbials is particularly challenging. Yet, despite the long tradition of Romance linguistics, certain features in the adverbial system remain unexplained. This is the case of adverbials built with a preposition and an adjective following the pattern <PREP + ADJ> like French pour de bon 'for real' and en bref 'soon'. This paper focuses on French, more exactly on field inquiries realized in Eastern Quebec. Results are presented by the means of individual portraits on adverbials built with some forty adjectives. Each portrait shows their current recognition, vitality and semantic and morphosyntactic variation as well as their competition with other adverbs mentioned by the informants. This document is the appendix to a research article by Wissner & Gagnon to be published by De Gruyter.