This article argues that data from the Atlas Linguistique de la France (ALF, Edmont and Gilliéron, 1902–1910) can shed light on the fine-grained syntax of sentential negation in the Oïl dialects spoken in North Eastern France, Belgium and Switzerland. The Gallo-Romance dialects spoken in this area possess a larger variety of negative structures than those found in (Standard) French: in addition to ne…pas, ne can be followed by negations mie, pont or even appear alone. Although the dialects under study are highly endangered, I show how we can use syntactic data ‘hidden’ in the ALF to study their syntactic patterns. I present a quantitative study of variation in sentential negation in authentic transcriptions and French translations of the 22 negative data points in the ALF at 150 points in France, Belgium and Switzerland (N = 2989). I show that the pont form is significantly more frequent in negative constructions with ‘weak NPs’ (de phrases) and that there is a significant correlation between dropping of secondary negation and the ability of the secondary negation mie to be realized as an enclitic -m. This study supports Dagnac (2018)’s conclusion that the ALF is an invaluable tool for the study of syntactic microvariation in France.

中文翻译：

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东北高卢浪漫方言中的句子否定：来自法兰西语言地图集的见解

本文认为，Atlas Linguistique de la France（ALF，Edmont 和 Gilliéron，1902-1910）的数据可以阐明在法国东北部、比利时和瑞士使用的 Oïl 方言中句子否定的细粒度句法。与（标准）法语相比，该地区使用的高卢-罗曼斯方言具有更多种类的否定结构：除了不...过去,氖后面可以跟否定三重,蓬甚至单独出现。尽管所研究的方言高度濒临灭绝，但我将展示我们如何使用“隐藏”在 ALF 中的句法数据来研究它们的句法模式。我在法国、比利时和瑞士（N = 2989）的 150 个点对 ALF 中 22 个否定数据点的真实转录和法语翻译中的句子否定变化进行了定量研究。我证明了蓬form 在带有“weak NPs”的否定结构中明显更频繁（德短语），并且二次否定的丢弃与二次否定的能力之间存在显着相关性三重被实现为一个enclitic-m. 本研究支持 Dagnac (2018) 的结论，即 ALF 是研究法国句法微变的宝贵工具。