The Decline of the French Passé Simple

This book discusses the features of the alleged disappearance and uses over time of the passé simple, while testing its vitality against contemporary corpora. Now evolving as a stylistic marker, that tense has not yet been superseded.

Info autore

Emmanuelle Labeau, Reader in French Language and Linguistics at Aston University (Birmingham, UK), has widely published on French tenses, on which she has directed a dozen of books and journal issues. Her research combines authentic corpora with a systemic approach.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Emmanuelle Labeau
• Editore: de Gruyter Brill
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9789004510326
• ISBN: 978-90-04-51032-6
• Pagine: 500
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 234 mm x 27 mm
• Peso: 866 g
• Serie: Empirical Approaches to Lingui
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata