Designed for students, this analysis of the principal areas of French grammar combines the insights of modern linguistic theory with those of more traditional grammarians. The book offers a comprehensive discussion of the French language, including verbs and verb phrases, voice, tense and aspect, the noun phrase, and prepositions; there are exercises, and useful guides to further reading. Foundations of French Syntax assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics, and will appeal to students and teachers of linguistics, French and other Romance languages.
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Designed for students, this analysis of the principal areas of French grammar combines the insights of modern linguistic theory with those of more traditional grammarians. The book offers a comprehensive discussion of the French language and assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics.
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The syntax of a language is the system which determines the possible ways in which words can be combined to produce valid sentences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aller construction, dative strategy, bouteille est pleine, comme fric, mettre mes affaires, classificatory adjectives, exclamative constructions, infinitival questions, predicational constructions, disjunctive pronouns, derived impersonals, identificational constructions, sont pourries, aux cheveux longs, fini son travail, compound tense forms, roule vite, pronominal verbs, mon stylo, inanimate reference, les robinets, indefiniteness restriction, dislocated construction, les frites, quantitative constructions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Accusative Case, Dative Case, Standard French, Modern French, Nominative Case, Dir Obj, Ind Obj, Quand Luc, Quand Pierre, Subject-clitic Inversion, Marie Dupont, Specified Subject Condition, Marie However, Genitive Case New!
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The syntax of a language is the system which determines the possible ways in which words can be combined to produce valid sentences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aller construction, dative strategy, bouteille est pleine, comme fric, mettre mes affaires, classificatory adjectives, exclamative constructions, infinitival questions, predicational constructions, disjunctive pronouns, derived impersonals, identificational constructions, sont pourries, aux cheveux longs, fini son travail, compound tense forms, roule vite, pronominal verbs, mon stylo, inanimate reference, les robinets, indefiniteness restriction, dislocated construction, les frites, quantitative constructions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Accusative Case, Dative Case, Standard French, Modern French, Nominative Case, Dir Obj, Ind Obj, Quand Luc, Quand Pierre, Subject-clitic Inversion, Marie Dupont, Specified Subject Condition, Marie However, Genitive Case New!
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- Transformational Syntax (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Andrew Radford in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Typology and Universals (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by William Croft in Front Matter
- A History of the French Language by Peter Rickard in Back Matter
- Verb Movement by David Lightfoot in Back Matter
- Logic in Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Jens Allwood in Front Matter
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- French: A Linguistic Introduction by Zsuzsanna Fagyal on page 91, and Back Matter
- Definiteness (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Christopher Lyons in Front Matter
- Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Lydia White in Front Matter
- English Corpora under Japanese Eyes (Language and Computers 51) (Language & Computers) by Junsaku Nakamura on page 48
- Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Florian Coulmas in Front Matter
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