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Prince, Ellen F. – Language, 1976
Shows that evidence exists for a rule of neg-raising in French. Neg-raising and its domain are then reconsidered from a functional perspective, whereby the transformation is shown to be hedging device. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, French, Linguistic Theory, Negative Forms (Language)

Fauconnier, Gilles – Language, 1973
Shorter version of this paper read at the First California Linguistics Conference, Berkeley, May 1971. (VM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, French, Grammar
Prince, Ellen F. – 1973
There is a class of verbs in French which require that their complement verb be in the indicative. However, if the matrix clause contains a negative or an interrogative, the complement verb is usually in the subjunctive, but sometimes in the indicative. Examples are the verbs "penser" and "croire" in sentences such as: 1) Elle…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, French, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Giry-Schneider, Jacqueline – Francais dans le Monde, 1977
An analysis of the causative verb construction in French as studied by Harris. Some questions raised are: Can a causative verb be considered an auxiliary? Which verbs can be causative? Might the notion of auxiliary include "auxiliary nouns"? Syntactic and lexical-semantic distinctions are made. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, French, Grammar, Language Research

Herschensohn, Julia – 1975
The Lexicalist-interpretive approach to inalienable possession adopted in this paper proposes that body parts are generated with either the article (the unmarked determiner) or the possessive adjective (the marked determiner). The unmarked body part is codesignate with the indirect object; in the case of pseudo-transitives--a clearly delimited…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, French, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Dugas, Andre; And Others – 1969
This syntactic study of French emphasizes analysis of the theory underlying the actual description of the language and techniques used in the derivation of the theory. The work, containing four major sections, includes: (1) a guide to base components, (2) symbolic notation, (3) grammar, and (4) transformations. Grammatical rules for "syntagmes,"…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, French
Benguerel, Andre-Pierre; Grundstrom, Allan W. – 1968
The monograph contains two papers. The first presents a generative grammar for verbal forms in French. It consists of an ordered set of rewrite rules and a set of tables. It generates all existing verbal forms without generating any non-existing ones. The departure from an ordinary generative grammar lies in the use of a tabular form for…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Acoustics, Articulation (Speech), Descriptive Linguistics
Arrive, Michel; Chevalier, Jean-Claude – 1970
A historical perspective of French grammar is developed in this chronologically arranged reader. Part One includes material on French grammar from the 16th to the 19th century: (1) the "Premiere Epoque": 1530-1660, (2) the general grammar of Port-Royal, and (3) the "philosophical grammars" treating syntax, sentence structure, and discourse…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, French