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On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader

William J. Ashby

This scholarly edition invites us to reconsider our assumptions about the French language, by showcasing the oeuvre of one of the pioneers of diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics, William J. Ashby, and the ground-breaking findings to come out of his influential Tours corpora (1976 & 1995),… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 226] 2023. xiv, 534 pp.

A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students

Paul Boucher

A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students offers the reader an in-depth contrastive study of French and English based on recent theories of linguistics and discourse analysis. At the same time it is a practical manual for the advanced language student or the translator… read more

[Not in series, 216] 2018. xiv, 297 pp.

Constructions in French

Edited by Myriam Bouveret and Dominique Legallois

The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 13] 2012. vi, 287 pp.

Reflexive Marking in the History of French

Richard Waltereit

While French reflexive clitics have been widely studied, other forms of expressing co-reference within the clause have not received much attention. This monograph offers a diachronic study of the wider system of clause-mate co-reference in French, including the stressed pronouns, their suffixed… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 127] 2012. x, 224 pp.