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A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students
Paul Boucher
[Not in series 216] 2018
► pp. 3–26

Chapter 1
The units of language

Article outline
  • 1.1Introduction
  • 1.2Morphology
    • 1.2.1Form and meaning
    • 1.2.2Morphemes
    • 1.2.3Derivation
      • 1.2.3.1Affixation
      • 1.2.3.2Prefixation
    • 1.2.4Compounds
      • 1.2.4.1English compound patterns
      • 1.2.4.2French compound patterns
      • 1.2.4.3Lexical versus syntactic patterns in English and French
  • 1.3Syntax
    • 1.3.1Categories
    • 1.3.2Phrase structure
      • 1.3.2.1The Noun Phrase (NP)
      • 1.3.2.2The Adjective Phrase (AP)
      • 1.3.2.3Other phrase structures
    • 1.3.3Clause structure
  • Notes
  • Further reading in morphology
  • Further reading in syntax
References

Further reading in morphology

Adams, Valerie
1973 An Introduction to Modern English Word Formation. London: Longmans.Google Scholar
Bassac, Christian
2004 Principes de morphologie anglaise. Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux.Google Scholar
Gaudin, François et Louis Guespin
2000 Initiation à la lexicologie française: de la néologie aux dictionnaires. Brussels: Duculot.Google Scholar
Katamba, Francis
1993 Morphology. London: Macmillan.Google Scholar
Lehmann, Alise et Françoise Martin-Berthet
2013 (4° edition). Lexicologie : sémantique, morphologie et lexicographie. Paris: Armand Colin.Google Scholar
Mitterand, Henri
1981 Les mots français. Paris: Presses universitaires de France.Google Scholar
Marchand, Hans
1969 The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word Formation, A Synchronic-Diachronic Approach. Munich: Beck.Google Scholar
Picoche, Jacqueline
1977 Précis de lexicologie française: l’étude et l’enseignement du vocabulaire. Paris: Nathan.Google Scholar
Tournier, Jean et Nicole Tournier
2009 Dictionnaire de lexicologie française. Paris: Ellipses.Google Scholar

Further reading in syntax

Gardes-Tamine, Joëlle
2008 La grammaire, tome 2, Syntaxe. Paris: Armand Colin.Google Scholar
Gledhill, Christopher
2003 Fundamentals of French syntax. (Lincom Coursebooks in Linguistics 11). München: Lincom Europa.Google Scholar
Guiraud, Pierre
1970 La syntaxe du français. PUFGoogle Scholar
Pollock, Jean-Yves
1997 Langage et Cognition. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.Google Scholar
Radford, Andrew
1997 Syntax : A Minimalist Approach. CUP.Google Scholar
Tesnière, Lucien
1976 Eléments de syntaxe structurale. Paris: Klincksieck.Google Scholar