The French Language Today provides a well-informed introduction to the French language from the perspective of modern linguistics. The authors highlight the complex, diverse aspects of the French language in a lively and accessible manner. A variety of topics are covered including the distribution of French in the world, the historical development of standard French, the sound system of French, its sentence patterns, and its stylistic and geographical variations. Responding to a critical gap in the market, the book is both an introduction to the techniques of linguistics as applied to the French language, and a reference work for the more advanced student. The contents of the book arise directly out of courses taught by the authors at the University of York. Written specifically with the student in mind it will thus prove invaluable as a textbook for a variety of language and linguistics courses.
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'The authors can rightly claim in the preface to the second edition that The French Language Today is still unique in the market in providing undergraduate students with a comprehensive description of the linguistics structure of the modern language.' - - Glenn Ekambi, University of Auckland
'This book is an excellent introduction to French linguistics.' - Joseph Reisdoerfer, The Linguist List --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
'This book is an excellent introduction to French linguistics.' - Joseph Reisdoerfer, The Linguist List --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
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In Chapters 2-4 we analyse the linguistic structure of the French language today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
clitic proform, français soigné, les français régionaux, personal proforms, proposition adverbiale, relative proform, person object clitics, subject proforms, remote quantification, interrogative movement, declarative subordinate clauses, petits chats noirs, written morphology, français familier, feminine gender agreement, grammatical stress, adjectival morphology, liaison consonant, past participle agreement, zero realisation, liaison contexts, subordinate interrogatives, final open syllables, subordinate clause containing, quantifier floating Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Imperative Participles, Old French, Indian Ocean, Middle French, Canadian French, Vaugelas's Remarques, Edit de Villers-Cotterêts, Modem French, New Brunswick, Serments de Strasbourg, Grapheme Usually, Middle Ages, Mme de Stael New!
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In Chapters 2-4 we analyse the linguistic structure of the French language today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
clitic proform, français soigné, les français régionaux, personal proforms, proposition adverbiale, relative proform, person object clitics, subject proforms, remote quantification, interrogative movement, declarative subordinate clauses, petits chats noirs, written morphology, français familier, feminine gender agreement, grammatical stress, adjectival morphology, liaison consonant, past participle agreement, zero realisation, liaison contexts, subordinate interrogatives, final open syllables, subordinate clause containing, quantifier floating Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Imperative Participles, Old French, Indian Ocean, Middle French, Canadian French, Vaugelas's Remarques, Edit de Villers-Cotterêts, Modem French, New Brunswick, Serments de Strasbourg, Grapheme Usually, Middle Ages, Mme de Stael New!
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