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Simoni-Aurembou, Marie-Rose – Langue Francaise, 1973
Special issue on French dialects. (RL)
Descriptors: Atlases, Dialect Studies, French, Lexicology
Ashby, William J. – 1977
In the French verb phrase, negation is often marked twice, by a proclitic element (ne) and by a second negative (such as "pas" or "rien"). Until the seventeenth century, the first element was obligatory, while a second negative was optionally added for emphasis or precision. Subsequently, the second negatives lost their…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, French, Language Research