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Author Foley, James, 1938-

Title Theoretical morphology of the French verb / James Foley
Published Amsterdam : John Benjamins B.V., 1979

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Description 1 online resource (292 pages)
Series Linguisticae investigationes. Supplementa ; v. 1
Linguisticae investigationes. Supplementa ; v. 1.
Contents Linguistic and philosophical assumptions -- Etymological uniformity of the personal endings -- Tense, aspects and mood morphemes -- Historical change in the personal endings and desinences -- Vocalic alternations -- Consonantal alternations in the present subjunctive -- Development of the thematic vowel of the French infinitive from Latin -- Loss of thematic vowel in the future and present indicative -- Thematic vowel in the perfect of the third conjugation -- Thematic vowel of the past participle in the third conjugation -- Strength operations -- Theoretical nature of morphophonological explanation
Summary This book presents a theoretical analysis of French verb morphology based on the linguistic theory presented in the author's previous book Foundations of Theoretical Phonology. It provides, in the detailed analysis of a natural language, exemplifications and illustrations of the principles presented in that book
The analysis of French verbs presented in this monograph is neither a synchronic nor a diachronic description, but rather a theoretical achronic analysis whose goal is the explanation of the historical phonetic development of the French verb in terms of changes in the underlying abstract morphological forms. One of the basic premises of this book is that the French superficial phonetic forms are not derived from the Latin superficial phonetic forms, but that both are derived from abstract etymological forms
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-292)
Notes Includes indexes
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Subject French language -- Verb
French language -- Morphology
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Reference.
French language -- Morphology
French language -- Verb
Verb
Morphologie Linguistik
Französisch.
Form Electronic book
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