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On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader
William J. Ashby
[Studies in Language Companion Series 226] 2023
► pp. 29–54

A data-driven glossing philosophy of Spoken French

Variable, radical prefixal glossing

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Article outline
  • 1.Utterances with inflectional prefixes
    • 1.1Nouns with prefixes
    • 1.2Verbs with prefixes
      • 1.2.1Verbs with prefixes: Agreement (subject/object)
      • 1.2.2Verbs with prefixes: Tense/aspect/mood (TAM)
  • 2.Utterances without inflectional prefixes
    • 2.1Nouns without prefixes
      • 2.1.1Bare nouns
      • 2.1.2Nouns with preceding adjective
    • 2.2Verbs without prefixes
      • 2.2.1Verbs without prefixes: Agreement
        • 2.2.1.1Personal verbs without agreement prefixes
          • 2.2.1.1.1Personal verbs without agreement prefixes
          • 2.2.1.1.2Personal verbs without agreement prefixes but with audible suffixes
          • 2.2.1.1.3Personal verbs without agreement prefixes and without audible suffixes
        • 2.2.1.2Impersonal verbs without agreement prefixes
      • 2.2.2Verbs without prefixes: TAM
        • 2.2.2.1Verbs without TAM prefixes but with audible TAM suffixes
        • 2.2.2.2Separability: Negation and/or other intervening adverbs
  • 3.Utterances with overt subjects
  • 4.Utterances without overt subjects
    • 4.1Pro: Personal verbs (i.e., where a referential subject is possible, but absent)
    • 4.2#: Impersonal verbs (i.e., where a referential subject impossible, and therefore absent)
  • 5.Formatting and abbreviations
    • 5.1Formatting conventions for discourse-level examples
    • 5.2List of glossing abbreviations
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
Published online: 2 March 2023
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