A01=Adrian Battye
A01=Marie-Anne Hintze
A01=Paul Rowlett
Adjectival Root
Author_Adrian Battye
Author_Marie-Anne Hintze
Author_Paul Rowlett
bon
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Ce Matin
Clause Initial Position
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Finite Subordinate Clause
French Language
French sociolinguistic development
grammatical structures
Impersonal Il
Indirect Object
Inflectional Morphology
La Chaise
language standardisation
Le Bon Usage
Le Chien
Le Page
linguistic diversity
Matrix Clause
morphosyntax
nasal
Non-finite Subordinate Clauses
orthography
participle
past
Past Participle
Past Participle Agreement
phonological analysis
Postverbal Np
Qui Est
Reflexive Clitic
Relative Clauses
Roots End
Sentence Initial Position
sociolinguistic variation
standard
Stylistic Inversion
Subordinate Clause
usage
Utterance Time
vowel
Product details
- ISBN 9780415198370
- Weight: 703g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jun 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the French language from the perspective of modern linguistics. Placing French within its social and historical context, the authors highlight the complex, diverse aspects of the language in a lively and accessible way. A variety of topics is 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.
Fully updated and revised, this new edition places a greater emphasis on sociolinguistics. To make the book more user-friendly, the following new features have been added:
* a further reading guide at the end of each chapter
* a glossary of linguistic terms
* an expanded bibliography and index.
Adrian Battye taught internationally and was Lecturer in Romance Linguistics at the University of York until his death in 1993. Marie-Anne Hintze is currently Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds. Paul Rowlett has taught widely throughout the world and is now Head of French at the University of Salford.
