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This book is an advanced student's grammar of French that integrates traditional grammar with knowledge and insights from modern linguistics. Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen takes a structural approach to French grammar: she provides clear descriptions of grammatical rules based explicitly on syntactic structure, and places descriptive emphasis on instances where the grammatical structures of French differ from those used in corresponding contexts in English. The first part of the book provides an introduction to French sentence structure, before the following parts examine the grammar of verbs, nominals, particles, and clauses and sentences. The Structure of Modern Standard French will be a valuable resource for students of French at undergraduate level and beyond. It assumes some prior knowledge of French grammar but is designed to be accessible to those with no background in linguistics.
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen is Professor of French Language and Linguistics at the University of Manchester. She holds a PhD and Higher Doctorate in French Linguistics from the University of Copenhagen, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2013. She is the author of The Function of Discourse Particles: A Study with Special Reference to Spoken Standard French (Benjamins, 1996), and Particles at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: Synchronic and Diachronic Issues (Elsevier/Brill, 2008) and of numerous journal articles and book chapters in the areas of French grammar, linguistics, and pragmatics, from both a synchronic and diachronic point of view.
Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I: Understanding French Sentence Structure; 1 Simple sentences and their basic constituents; 2 The internal structure of clause constituents; 3 Complex sentence structures; 4 Subordinate clauses; Part II: The Grammar of French Verbs; 5 Finite verb forms: Mood; 6 Finite verb forms: Tense; 7 Finite verb forms: Aspect; 8 Finite verb forms: Auxiliaries; 9 Non-finite verb forms: The infinitive; 10 Non-finite verb forms: The past participle; 11 11. Non-finite verb forms: The present participle and the gerondif ; Part III: The Grammar of French Nominals; 12 Definite and indefinite determiners; 13 Adjectives within the noun phrase; 14 Pronouns: Overview; 15 Personal and reflexive pronouns; 16 Neutral pronouns; 17 Pronominal adverbs; 18 Possessives and demonstratives; 19 Interrogative and relative pronouns and adverbs; 20 Indefinites; Part IV: The Grammar of French Particles; 21 Prepositions; 22 Adverbs, interjections, and coordinating conjunctions; Part V: The Grammar of French Clauses and Sentences; 23 Negation and restriction; 24 Word order; 25 Voice; 26 Dislocation, (pseudo-)clefts, and presentative constructions; Further reading; Appendix A: Overview of grammatical functions; Appendix B: Word classes in French; Appendix C: Subordinate clause types in French; Appendix D: Examples of sentence analyses to word level; Appendix E: Overview of the French tenses
Show moreThis book is an advanced student's grammar of French that integrates traditional grammar with knowledge and insights from modern linguistics. Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen takes a structural approach to French grammar: she provides clear descriptions of grammatical rules based explicitly on syntactic structure, and places descriptive emphasis on instances where the grammatical structures of French differ from those used in corresponding contexts in English. The first part of the book provides an introduction to French sentence structure, before the following parts examine the grammar of verbs, nominals, particles, and clauses and sentences. The Structure of Modern Standard French will be a valuable resource for students of French at undergraduate level and beyond. It assumes some prior knowledge of French grammar but is designed to be accessible to those with no background in linguistics.
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen is Professor of French Language and Linguistics at the University of Manchester. She holds a PhD and Higher Doctorate in French Linguistics from the University of Copenhagen, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2013. She is the author of The Function of Discourse Particles: A Study with Special Reference to Spoken Standard French (Benjamins, 1996), and Particles at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: Synchronic and Diachronic Issues (Elsevier/Brill, 2008) and of numerous journal articles and book chapters in the areas of French grammar, linguistics, and pragmatics, from both a synchronic and diachronic point of view.
Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I: Understanding French Sentence Structure; 1 Simple sentences and their basic constituents; 2 The internal structure of clause constituents; 3 Complex sentence structures; 4 Subordinate clauses; Part II: The Grammar of French Verbs; 5 Finite verb forms: Mood; 6 Finite verb forms: Tense; 7 Finite verb forms: Aspect; 8 Finite verb forms: Auxiliaries; 9 Non-finite verb forms: The infinitive; 10 Non-finite verb forms: The past participle; 11 11. Non-finite verb forms: The present participle and the gerondif ; Part III: The Grammar of French Nominals; 12 Definite and indefinite determiners; 13 Adjectives within the noun phrase; 14 Pronouns: Overview; 15 Personal and reflexive pronouns; 16 Neutral pronouns; 17 Pronominal adverbs; 18 Possessives and demonstratives; 19 Interrogative and relative pronouns and adverbs; 20 Indefinites; Part IV: The Grammar of French Particles; 21 Prepositions; 22 Adverbs, interjections, and coordinating conjunctions; Part V: The Grammar of French Clauses and Sentences; 23 Negation and restriction; 24 Word order; 25 Voice; 26 Dislocation, (pseudo-)clefts, and presentative constructions; Further reading; Appendix A: Overview of grammatical functions; Appendix B: Word classes in French; Appendix C: Subordinate clause types in French; Appendix D: Examples of sentence analyses to word level; Appendix E: Overview of the French tenses
Show morePreface
List of abbreviations
Part I: Understanding French Sentence Structure
1: Simple sentences and their basic constituents
2: The internal structure of clause constituents
3: Complex sentence structures
4: Subordinate clauses
Part II: The Grammar of French Verbs
5: Finite verb forms: Mood
6: Finite verb forms: Tense
7: Finite verb forms: Aspect
8: Finite verb forms: Auxiliaries
9: Non-finite verb forms: The infinitive
10: Non-finite verb forms: The past participle
11: 11. Non-finite verb forms: The present participle and the
gérondif
Part III: The Grammar of French Nominals
12: Definite and indefinite determiners
13: Adjectives within the noun phrase
14: Pronouns: Overview
15: Personal and reflexive pronouns
16: Neutral pronouns
17: Pronominal adverbs
18: Possessives and demonstratives
19: Interrogative and relative pronouns and adverbs
20: Indefinites
Part IV: The Grammar of French Particles
21: Prepositions
22: Adverbs, interjections, and coordinating conjunctions
Part V: The Grammar of French Clauses and Sentences
23: Negation and restriction
24: Word order
25: Voice
26: Dislocation, (pseudo-)clefts, and presentative
constructions
Further reading
Appendix A: Overview of grammatical functions
Appendix B: Word classes in French
Appendix C: Subordinate clause types in French
Appendix D: Examples of sentence analyses to word level
Appendix E: Overview of the French tenses
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen is Professor of French Language and
Linguistics at the University of Manchester. She holds a PhD and
Higher Doctorate in French Linguistics from the University of
Copenhagen, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of
Sciences and Letters in 2013. She is the author of The Function of
Discourse Particles: A Study with Special Reference to Spoken
Standard French (Benjamins, 1996), and Particles at the
Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: Synchronic and Diachronic Issues
(Elsevier/Brill, 2008) and of numerous journal articles and book
chapters in the areas of French grammar, linguistics, and
pragmatics, from both a synchronic and
diachronic point of view.
I would highly recommend this book, particularly to
English-speaking students who are looking to acquire a deeper
understanding of the most complicated structures found in standard
French. Thorough, accessible, and rich in examples and
illustrations, this work should establish itself as standard
reference both for students and teachers of French as a foreign
language.
*Damien Gaucher, Journal of French Language Studies*
This well-written advanced students' reference grammar of French
integrates traditional grammar with some well-chosen insights from
modern linguistics. It is highly accessible for student and teacher
... This book will improve students' ability to understand formal
written French texts, including literary ones. I wish it had been
available when I last taught advanced French. I highly recommend
it.
*Linda R. Waugh, University of Arizona*
The teaching of French grammar in UK secondary and higher education
has long been seen as a dreary and arbitrary enunciation of rights
and wrongs. This has left many advanced learners and teachers of
French starved of a deeper understanding of the principles
underlying grammatical rules and of knowledge about the structure
of French that linguistics provides. Mosegaard Hansen's book fills
this void admirably ... as a lucid and accessible guide to
understanding.
*Anthony Lodge, University of St Andrews*
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