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Using an original mode of presentation, the ‘textbite’, this book seeks to approach the French vocabulary from as many angles as possible - showing how French words are constructed, the difficulties inherent in defining a word, the relationships words enter into, their origins, and recent trends in word formation. Examples and exercises are provided throughout.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 136
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Series: Modern Language in Practice
Publication Date:
15 November 2000
Trim Size: 8.85 X 6.70 in
ISBN: 9781853594960
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary
Malcolm Offord is Reader in French at the University of Nottingham and has published a number of books and articles on the French language. His major publications include Using French: a Guide to Contemporary Usage (CUP) and Using French Synonyms (CUP), both co-authored with R.E. Batchelor, Varieties of Contemporary French (Macmillan), French Sociolinguistic Reader (Multilingual Matters).
Introduction
1 Words and Their Constituent Parts
2 Words
3 Words With a Long History
4 Words With a Foreign Origin
5 Words with a Short History – Neologisms
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography