Colloquial French Grammar
A Practical Guide
Published on 30. August 2000
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-631-21882-1 (ISBN)
Description
Designed specifically for the language learner and for others requiring a description of informal French morphology and syntax, Colloquial French Grammar is the first detailed non-technical survey in English of the many differences between standard and non-standard usage.
Reviews / Votes
"Rodney Ball has done us a service in providing this compact summary of the major grammatical features of colloquial French, in a form that is at the same time thoroughly linguistic in its approach and quite accessible to the non-specialist. The book would be equally useful for [undergraduate] and graduate students; moreover with its abundant bibliographic references, it could serve well in French linguistics courses." French ReviewMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-21882-1 (9780631218821)
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Person
Rodney Ball is Senior Lecturer in French in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Southampton. He has published widely on current developments in the language, and is author of The French-Speaking World: a Practical Introduction to Sociolinguistic Issues (1997).
Content
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction.
2. Three Grammatical Processes.
3. Noun Phrases.
4. Verbs.
5. Conjunctions and Prepositions.
6. Sentence Structure and Organization.
7. Grammatical Effects of an Unreformed Spelling System.
8. Conclusions.
Appendix 1: Answers to Selected Exercises.
Appendix 2: Explanations of Grammatical Terms.
Appendix 3: Using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
References.
Index.
2. Three Grammatical Processes.
3. Noun Phrases.
4. Verbs.
5. Conjunctions and Prepositions.
6. Sentence Structure and Organization.
7. Grammatical Effects of an Unreformed Spelling System.
8. Conclusions.
Appendix 1: Answers to Selected Exercises.
Appendix 2: Explanations of Grammatical Terms.
Appendix 3: Using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
References.
Index.