French not a great verb-framed language....

[Elena Nicoladis]

I'm trying to track down references for two rumours about French that I
haven't been able to back up with data. If anyone has any clues as to
studies that would back up the following points, I would appreciate it:

1) French is less verb-framed than other verb-framed languages like Spanish
or Italian.

2) Romance languages in historical contact with satellite-framed languages
tend to lose their properties of verb-framedness (as in the Italian spoken
in northern Italy near Austria).
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Elena Nicoladis, PhD
University of Alberta
Department of Psychology
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"Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one."
-Voltaire
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