Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Janice Carruthers, Rosalind Temple

Problems and Perspectives

Studies in the Modern French Language

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is an introduction to the linguistic structure of the French language. It illustrates the different ways to approaching and explaining issues of interest in French linguistics and looks at how the language is structured and varies depending on gender, medium, register, age etc. The earlier sections describe the basic 'facts' about phonology, phonetics, morphosyntax, the lexicon and semantics. Discussion of problematic issues, with contrasting different approaches to these issues then follow along with references to recent research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781138149120
• ISBN-10: 1138149128
• Artikelnr.: 69946969

Autorenporträt

Wendy Ayres-Bennett is a Reader in French Philology and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Janice Carruthers is a Lecturer in French at the Queen's University of Belfast. Rosalind Temple is a Lecturer in French Language and Linguistics at the University of York.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1: PRELIMIARIES1. French standards and variation2. Introduction to the
description of French: definitions and metalanguage3. Approaches and
schools4. Choice of topics and approachesPART 2: ISSUES1. Word-final
consonants2. Nasal vowels3. Schwa: a maverick vowel4. Verb morphology:
conjugation classes and the definition of regularity5. Aspect in French6.
Past tenses: complex and changing relationships7. Mood and modality: the
French subjunctive8. Pronominal verbs9. Declarative word order: French as
an SVO language10. Relations between clauses: subordination, coordination,
parataxis11. Negation12. Neologisms: internal versus external factors13.
'Internal' processes of word creation in FrenchReferencesIndex of
conceptsIndex of names