French (Jersey)
- Language Family
- Indo-European
- Subgroup
- Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian
- Area
- —
Summary
Jersey French resembles Standard French as it also has a metathesis change *CVr > CrV.
There are also cases of *vr > rv change, although Spence (1990) claims that it does not affect all the *vr words.
Type(s) of metathesis
| Type | Status | Optionality | Position | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a. CV | Both/unknown | Obligatory | Adjacent | Root-internal | |
| b. CC | Diachronic | Obligatory | Adjacent | Root-internal |
Case types and qualities
-
- CV
-
- C:
- Rhotic
- V:
- Any
-
- CC
-
- C1:
- Labio-dental fricative
- C2:
- Rhotic
Examples
*virgata (Lat.) > vrɛʒiː 'local land measure of just under the half-acre'
*vertuculum (VLat.) > vrɛto
*ʃɛvrɛt > ʃɛrvɛt 'shrimp'
Conditions
No conditions could be found
Motivations
No motivations could be found
Symbols
Comments
Note that the author makes a disctinction between transposition (reordering of adjacent segments) and metathesis (reordering of non-adjacent segments).
Bibliography
- Spence, Nicol 1990. ‘Sporadic’ changes in Jersey French. In J. Green and W. Ayres-Bennet (eds.), Variation and Change in French: Essays presented to Rebecca Posner on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday. New York: Routledge. 210-225.