Abstract
This paper deals with the regional variation of French idioms of native speakers from France, Belgium, Switzerland and Quebec. Its main aim is to oppose the traditional view which used to describe French from a single vantage point, viz. the French spoken in France, and in particular Parisian French. The claim here is that variational French has to be conceived as a whole, i. e. as an aggregate of both the specificities of each variant as well as the part of French that is common to all users of the language. However, this set is difficult to come to grips with empirically because it has yet to be described in any dictionary.
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