Demonstrates the syntactic and semantic similarities between French nominal expressions with "faire," and attempts to establish a relationship between these expressions and related nominals independent of "faire." (AM)

Attempts to characterize and classify French verbs that may be called dative according to the complements that characteristically follow them. (AM)

Proposes a semantic theory with applications to performatives, speech acts, and pragmatic theory. (AM)

Discusses the traditional description of the French subjunctive, as opposed to a description based on principles of mathematical logic, which can account for the relationship between form and meaning in the subjunctive. (AM)

Analyzes "possessive" reflexives in French, within the framework of a generative grammar approach. A list of examples is appended. (AM)

Proposes a method for teaching grammar to the adult remedial learner which is inductive in nature and which allows the student to form generalizations about grammar. (AM)

The nature of the system of linguistic entities of a natural language is examined. The purpose is to define the relation between "le lexique" and an overall linguistic theory, the relation between form and meaning. (Text is in French.) (TL)

Syntactic analysis identifies the "conductor wires" permitting the listener to conceptualize the speaker's image of reality from information furnished by the linguistic message. Syntactic study is thus situated in the economy of the communication process. Mood, aspect and tense are studied in this framework. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A study of the syntactic organization of discourse and an attempt to show that in all languages organization is necessary for meaningful utterances. Topics covered are: the necessity of regular predication in French; a definition of the subject-verb unity; and the non-verbal predicate. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A study of the spoken French of 120 residents of Montreal. The researchers were interested in the linguistic and social factors influencing the use of "avoir" and "etre." Results show that this usage corresponds to a tendancy to regularize conjugations. (Text is in French.) (AMH)