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<p>The <i>Journal of French Language Studies</i> is a bilingual journal that publishes significant work on French theoretical and applied linguistics including but not limited to synchronic and diachronic studies focusing on phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and semantics. Sociolinguistic, variation, corpus, first and second language acquisition, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Global South, digital humanities studies are all welcome as long as they are based on current theories and solid methodologies. In addition to standard French, we are also interested in all Gallo-Romance dialects (including varieties such as Picard, Franco-Provençal, etc.). Survey Articles reviewing the state of the art in a major field will also be considered as well as work in progress for the French Research Notes section and Book Reviews. Special Issues are published once a year and suggestions are welcome year-round.</p><p>La <i>Revue d’Etudes de linguistique française</i> est une revue bilingue qui publie des travaux importants sur la linguistique théorique et appliquée du français, y compris, mais sans s'y limiter, des études synchroniques et diachroniques axées sur la phonétique/phonologie, la morphologie, la syntaxe, le lexique et la sémantique. Les études sociolinguistiques, de variation, de corpus, d'acquisition d'une langue première et seconde, le traitement automatique du langage naturel (PNL), les études du Sud global, les humanités numériques sont toutes les bienvenues tant qu'elles sont basées sur des théories actuelles et des protocoles solides. Outre le français standard, nous nous intéressons également à tous les dialectes gallo-romans (y compris les variétés telles que le picard, le franco-provençal, etc.). Seront également pris en considération les articles faisant l'état de l'art dans un domaine majeur, ainsi que les travaux en cours pour la section French Research Notes et les Revues de livres. Les numéros spéciaux sont publiés une fois par an et les suggestions sont les bienvenues tout au long de l'année.</p>

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Les locutions auxiliaires modales à base nominale en obligation, en nécessité et en probabilité comparées au verbe modal devoir

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269526100386?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: July 21, 2026 00:00

In this article, we examine nominal modal auxiliary phrases (NMAPs) in French. More specifically, we study NMAPs where the nominal base consists of the nouns obligation (‘obligation’), nécessité (‘necessity’) and probabilité (‘probability’). At first…

Roseline Claerr, Linda Marchetti and Paul De Sinety (Eds.). Quelles politiques pour nos langues ? De l’Ordonnance de Villers-Cotterêts à la loi Toubon. Actes du colloque du 27 novembre et du 6 décembre 2024. Paris, Honoré Champion, 2025, 249 pp., ISBN: 978-2-7453-6531-6.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269526100441?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: July 9, 2026 00:00

Gijsbert Rutten, Andreas Krogull, Brenda Assendelft et Jill Puttaert, Pardon my French? Dutch-French Language Contact in the Netherlands (1500–1900). (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 15.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2026, xvii + 296 pp., ISBN: 9789027243935.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269526100428?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: July 9, 2026 00:00

I saw, I reported, I inferred: perception verb constructions as evidential strategies in French

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269526100404?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: July 7, 2026 00:00

This study investigates evidential meanings, referring to the information sources available to the speaker (i.e., direct witnessing, report, or inference), expressed through syntactic and lexical strategies in French. Across three experimental studies, we…

Emma Humphries, Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities: 19th- and 21st-Century Language Commentary on French. (IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 54.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025, xv + 262 pp. ISBN 978 90 272 1960 2

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269526100313?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: June 25, 2026 00:00

Henry Tyne and Stefania Spina (eds.). Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 122). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2025, vi + 403 pp., ISBN: 9789027222282. doi:10.1075/scl.122.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269526100453?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: June 25, 2026 00:00

Cross-Cultural Variation in Corporate Self-Praise: A Comparative Study of French and U.S. Press Releases

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269526100325?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: May 22, 2026 00:00

This study examines how two French and two U.S. companies engage in self-praise in press releases. Drawing on politeness theory and previous research on press releases, it focuses on salient forms of self-praise (sentences containing at least one…

The role of prosody in interpreting surprise questions in French

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269526100349?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: May 21, 2026 00:00

Previous research shows that speakers use prosody to disambiguate between string-identical canonical information questions and noncanonical questions conveying surprise. In this study, we investigated whether the prosodic cues produced by speakers are…

Taper ou se taper une randonnée ? Quand la construction active et la construction pronominale se rencontrent

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269526100301?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: May 11, 2026 00:00

Se basant sur un corpus de 1800 tweets, cet article compare deux constructions verbales du français informel : la construction pronominale se taper (ex. se taper une randonnée, se taper la gastro, se taper une bonne bouteille) et la construction active…

L’im/politesse en français : Nouveaux questionnements

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269526100337?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: May 11, 2026 00:00

Cet article d’introduction présente l’ambition et la contribution de ce numéro thématique consacré aux travaux sur l’im/politesse en langue française. L’article contextualise et présente cinq études empiriques qui illustrent la vitalité du champ : l’étude…

From Location in French to Aspect in Creole: The Grammaticalization of ka in Lesser Antillean and Guyanais

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269526100350?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: May 11, 2026 00:00

This article revisits the provenance of the preverbal imperfective aspect marker ka, which characterizes the French-lexicon creoles of the Lesser Antilles and French Guiana and sets them apart from those of Haiti, Louisiana, and the Indian Ocean, which…

Le compliment dans des interactions ordinaires et des émissions télévisées – émissions de talent et talk-shows – en français

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269525100227?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: May 11, 2026 00:00

In this article, the forms and role of compliments in French are analysed to identify preferred behaviours in two types of discourse. Forty-five instances of compliments were extracted from everyday interactions and 83 instances from television programmes…

Modulating Politeness in Criticism and Responses to Criticism: A Qualitative Study in French

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095926952610026X?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: May 4, 2026 00:00

We present results from a qualitative analysis illustrating how people handle criticism in a workplace environment, including both the production of and responses to criticism. Our data comes from responses provided by 80 participants in a written…

Grammatical Gender Biases Interpretation of Masculine, but Not Feminine, Hybrid Nouns

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269526100283?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: May 4, 2026 00:00

A substantial body of research has demonstrated that, in French as in other gender-marked languages, masculine generic terms tend to induce a male bias in the readers’ mental representations of the person referred to. The current study investigates whether…

Muhsina Alleesaib and Julie Lefort (eds.), New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardisation, Grammar and Language Use. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025, vi + 323 pp., ISBN 978 90 272 1919 0. doi: 10.1075/coll.61.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269525100239?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: April 20, 2026 00:00

Jacques Ouellet, Incidences et références: la méthode comparative en systématique du langage et en logique naturelle du discours. Fribourg-Freiburg, Suisse: Éditions Lambert-Lucas Sàrl, 2025, 383 pp., 978 2 940817 29 0/978 2 940817 30 6.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269526100258?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: April 20, 2026 00:00

Dative verbs in French: a corpus-based study of change

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269525100215?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: March 2, 2026 00:00

This study provides an account of the puzzling difference in case marking of the object of two-argument verbs like aider (accusative) and obéir (dative) in French. Cross-linguistically, these two verb types usually mark their object identically (e.g.,…

“Ne les rudoyez pas”. Rules and formulae for master-servant directives in nineteenth-century French conduct and etiquette manuals

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269525100197?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Published: February 10, 2026 00:00

This study proposes a new qualitative method in historical pragmatics to extract politeness formulae for master-servant directives from nineteenth-century French advice literature. Whereas traditional politeness models study strategic face-saving, this…