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Goeller, Alfred – Franzosisch Heute, 1974
The author defends a position previously taken against a criticism that stated that he did not use the Chomskyan model (or any closed model), but rather a general transformational grammar. Several selected examples are used to explain the ranking he assigns to this grammar in foreign language teaching. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: French, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Models
Milner, Jean-Claude – Langages, 1978
Proposes a theory, based on transformational grammar, that categorizes French reflexive pronouns as being either "free" or "bound," and attempts to apply this theory to Latin reflexive pronouns. (AM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, French, Grammar, Latin

Spa, J. J. – Linguistics, 1973
Criticizes Chomsky's theory of the syllabic feature as a major class feature in The Sound Pattern of English'' (New York, Harper and Row, 1968). (RS)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Evaluation, French, Linguistic Theory

Corbin, Danielle – Langue Francaise, 1976
Discusses French morphology and shows that the rules at this level of linguistic analysis are particularly susceptible to having exceptions. The irregularities are grouped into three types: 1) idiosyncrasies, 2) accidental gaps, and 3) the existence of non-productive processes. (Text is in French.) (TL)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Morphemes

Gaatone, David – Revue Romane, 1976
Compares the behavior of certain French verbs and studies the possibility of an impersonal expansion under the form of the infinitive. Examines whether the property in question can be tied to the rule of "subject raising" postulated by transformational grammar. (Text is in French.) Available from: Akademisk Forlag, St. Kannikestraede…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, French, Grammar

Carter, Richard – Langue Francaise, 1976
The nature of the system of linguistic entities of a natural language is examined. The purpose is to define the relation between "le lexique" and an overall linguistic theory, the relation between form and meaning. (Text is in French.) (TL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, French, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
GROSS, MAURICE – 1967
A TRANSFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS OF MODERN FRENCH GRAMMAR IS SIMILAR TO THE "RULE OF CACAPHONY" PROPOSED BY PORT-ROYAL GRAMMARIANS TO AVOID BAD PRONUNCIATION. BY MEANS OF CERTAIN REWRITE RULES, THE CORRECT USAGE OF THE PARTITIVE (DE) CAN BE TAUGHT AND EXPLAINED MORE SIMPLY THAN WAS POSSIBLE USING THE TRADITIONAL METHOD. THE RULE OF CACAPHONY…
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), French, Grammar, Language Patterns

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

Lamerand, Raymond – Babel, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English (Second Language), French, Grammar
Dupont, Louis – Francais dans le Monde, 1972
Author cites philological grammar" as one of three ways of treating language. The other two approaches to language are traditional grammar and linguistic grammar or transformational generative grammar. Philological grammar stresses the art of reading. (DS)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Diagrams, French, Grammar

Klausenburger, Jurgen – Language, 1978
An analysis of some of the historical rules of consonant deletion, vowel deletion, nasalization, and initial h-deletion--all recapitulated synchronically within the transformational generative accounts of French linking--showing that they have undergone morphologization in the form of inversion, and that h-aspire words have been assigned the…
Descriptors: French, Generative Grammar, Generative Phonology, Grammar

Rossi, Mario – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: French, Intonation, Linguistic Theory, Mathematical Linguistics

Monnerie, Annie – Langue Francaise, 1979
Examines the positive and negative features of traditional, transformational, and notional grammar as they relate to the teaching of French as a foreign language. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
Connors, Kathleen – 1974
This article argues that QUE-deletion in Montreal French is a syntactic rule, rather than a phonological one, as earlier treatments had claimed. It is divided into five sections: (1) a discussion of why the rule accounting for the alternation of QUE with zero is a deletion, not an insertion rule, (2) a critique of the best known earlier…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), French, Language Research, Linguistic Theory