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Expressing the Same by the Different
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 165.00This volume offers an alternative, sign-oriented analysis of the distribution of the French Indicative and Subjunctive. It rejects both government and functions, attributed to both moods, and shows that the distribution of the Indicative and the Subjunctive is motivated by their invariant meanings. The volume illustrates the close interaction between... more...
Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 165.00This study aims to investigate politeness in women?s and men?s speech, with a particular focus on the use of c?est-à-dire, enfin, hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French . Politeness is defined as going beyond the notion of the face-threatening act, englobing both everyday ideas of politeness and the creation of sociability in face-to-face... more...
Grammatical Variation across Space and Time
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 158.00Interrogative clauses in French show abundant variation, especially with regard to the position of the subject vis-à-vis the finite verb, the placement of the wh-word, and the use of question markers such as est-ce que and ti / tu . This book presents a comprehensive study of the evolution and use of French interrogative constructions across a time... more...
The Layered DP
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 173.00This book examines argumental un -NPs and du/des -NPs in French: nominals with the indefinite article and with the so-called ?partitive article? respectively. The main aim is to account for the different interpretations of these indefinites and to determine how interpretation and structure are related. This study thus concerns the syntax-semantics... more...
The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 165.00This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 1–4 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of Acadian French. Chapter 5 outlines the basic features... more...
Old French
Cambridge University Press 1975; US$ 42.00A concise but unusually comprehensive handbook for the students of Old French. more...
Foundations of French Syntax
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 50.00Detailed analysis of the principal areas of French grammar, grounded in traditional and modern theory. more...
Speech and Sociability at French Urban Marketplaces
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1990; US$ 149.00This study is both particularistic and generalizing. At one level it can be seen as an investigation of French urban marketplaces as systems of communication, with a microscopic examination of verbal interaction and sociability patterns in a specific cultural setting. At another level it constitutes an attempt to show some relationships between the... more...
The Categories of Grammar
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1997; US$ 216.00This book offers an analysis of the French clitic object pronouns lui and le in the radically functional Columbia school framework, contrasting this framework with sentence-based treatments of case selection. It suggests that features of the sentence such as subject and object relations, normally taken as pretheoretical categories of observation... more...
Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 180.00All of the articles in this volume focus on the interaction of form and meaning. Most of them are developed under the principal thesis of the Minimalist Program. These works show that the theoretical linguistic trend is to discover semantic aspects which are assumed to have visible syntactic repercussions through morphosyntactic and morphosemantic... more...









