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Zribi-Hertz, Anne – Langue Francaise, 1978
Analyzes "possessive" reflexives in French, within the framework of a generative grammar approach. A list of examples is appended. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Semantics, Sentence Structure

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

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

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)

Hupet, Michel – Linguistics, 1973
Research supported by the Fonds National belge de la Recherche Scientifique. (DD)
Descriptors: French, Kernel Sentences, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance

Dessaux, Anne-Marie – Langue Francaise, 1976
Describes the use of some determiners in French and shows how their syntactic and semantic roles are interrelated. (Text is in French.) (TL)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Determiners (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), French
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

Authier, Jacqueline; Meunier, Andre – Langue Francaise, 1977
An analysis of exercises concerning indirect, direct and free discourse appearing in tests of the "premier cycle," from both pedagogical and linguistic points of view. The thesis is that a method giving primacy to manipulative exercises based on prefabricated sentences militates against discourse and communication. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, French, Grammar, Language Instruction
Querido, Antonio A. M. – Meta, 1973
Study carried out as part of the research project Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence'', subsidized by the Council of the Arts of Canada and the University of Montreal; paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (RS)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Diagrams, Form Classes (Languages), French
Fong, Eugene A. – 1978
There is a set of French verbs which admits both indicative and subjunctive sentential complements. The indicative complement is correlated with a positive assertion about the truth of the complement; the subjunctive implies a neutral attitude or a non-assertion. When various sentential complement constructions are considered both in the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar
Bar-Adon, Aaron, Ed.; Leopold, Werner F., Ed. – 1971
The present volume is designed to help the student of child language, especially the beginning student, discover the high points of American and international research, such as French, German, Hebrew, Polish, and Russian. The selections in this reader are intended as an introduction to various fields of child language and to different theories and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Chinese, English
Corder, S. P., Ed.; Roulet, E., Ed. – 1974
Papers from the 1973 Neuchatel Colloquium in Applied Linguistics are presented. Contents are as follows: "Karttunen's Types of Implication in English and German: A Contrastive Study," W. Abraham; "The Relevance of Generative Semantics for Language Teaching," R. Dirven; "'Be' plus 'ing' Revisited," H. Adamczeski; "The So-Called Deep Structures and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis
Chellappan, K. – International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 1981
This paper focuses on the mechanism by which the successful learner acquires a second language. The author postulates a core language, the common core of the speaker's native and target languages, and states that the second language becomes an extension of this common core. Whatever language-specific features are added while acquiring the second…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dravidian Languages, French
Benseler, David P., Ed. – 1976
The forty papers that make up the second part of the proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages cover a wide range of topics relating to foreign language teaching and linguistic theory: the interdisciplinary approach to second language instruction, individualized instruction, foreign…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Education