Abstract
The work on young parlers in metropolitan France has shown many variations. The latter were mainly studied from a lexical and sometimes phonetic perspective. In addition, there has been a broad focus on the attitudinal and representative aspects. On the other hand, young parlers have been barely analysed from a syntactical point of view, perhaps because the phenomena of variation observed relate to usual variations in ordinary French or to traits which some authors compare with ‘French populaire’. However, syntax data have been poorly compared between corpus, between corpus from metropolitan terrain and between corpus from peripheral terraces. In order to start engaging with the periphery, we have chosen to present isolated syntactical variation events in French Guiana and Réunion. Having quickly presented our sociolinguistic situations and our respective corpus, we will describe variations in the realisation of third person clitics among teenagers in French Guiana and Réunion. We will see how the — relative — presence of the same patterns of variation in both fields confirms the assumptions regarding the respective roles of language contact and evolving internal trends in French.