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La negation et l'orientation de la demande de confirmation (Negation and the Orientation of the Request for a Positive Response).
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Borillo, Andre – Langue Francaise, 1979
Examines the structure of negation in questions in French, in particular the interrogative form containing a negative but expecting a positive response. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Negative Forms (Language), Sentence Structure
Le systeme de la negation en francais et l'opacite du sujet (The Structure of Negation in French and Subject Opacity).
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Milner, Jean-Claude – Langue Francaise, 1979
Examines the relationship of "ne" and its accompanying particles ("pas,""plus,""jamais,""personne," etc.) in the French negation system, with special reference to subject opacity. (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, French, Grammar, Negative Forms (Language)
The Determiners in French
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Haden, Ernest F. – Linguistics, 1973
Expanded version of a paper presented before the Applied Linguistics Section of the South Central Modern Language Association Convention, Memphis, Tennessee, 1970. (DD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages)
Actif et passif des manuels (The Active and Passive in Textbooks)
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Leduc-Adine, Jean-Pierre – Langue Francaise, 1977
This study has as its point of departure the nature of the passive and the linguistic point of view on it taken by textbooks. Topics treated are; passive voice or sentence; surface and deep structure; passive transformation; its relationship to the message; textbooks and their function. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, French, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
L'ellipse comme facteur de coherence (Ellipsis as a Coherence Factor).
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Cherchi, Lucien – Langue Francaise, 1978
Proposes a reexamination of the ellipsis within the framework of discourse grammar, as opposed to a grammar of sentence structure. (AM)
Descriptors: Coherence, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, French
Le Juge de paix et le gardien de la paix, ou le probleme de la determination dans le complement du nom ("Le juge de paix et le gardien de la paix," or the Problem of Determination in the Object of a Noun Phrase).
Coulon, R. – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1979
Presents an analysis of noun phrases in which the definite article is used and omitted. Several studies are reviewed and two types of occurrences are distinguished: direct (agent, instrument, object) and oblique (locative, dative). The relationships, perceptible in the deep structure, are blurred in the transformations leading to surface…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Determiners (Languages), French, Function Words
Le Langage et La Realite (Language and Reality).
Larochette, Joe – 1974
This book begins with a consideration of the relation between language as representation and the reality that is represented. The object of this study is the semantic function of syntactical relations in French and Spanish, but other languages are also used for purposes of comparison. Three principal diatheses are revealed: objective, subjective,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Des sous-univers du discours, qui degages a la fois du sens et de la forme. Applications en syntaxe. (Underworlds of Discourse That Would Be Distinct from Both Meaning and Form).
Lecerf, Yves – Langages, 1979
It is proposed that the notion of "address" is neither meaning nor form but that it designates the form which designates meaning. It is therefore in a position underlying both form and meaning. (AMH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), French, Language Research
French String Grammar. Final Report.
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New York Univ., NY. Linguistic String Project. – 1970
This work reports on an initial study of the possibility of providing a suitable framework for the teaching of a foreign language grammar through string analysis, using French as the target language. Analysis of a string word list (word-class sequences) yields an overall view of the grammar. Details are furnished in a set of restrictions which…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Distinctive Features (Language), English, French