Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction xiii
5. Section I. Structure 1
6. Chapter 1. The units of language 3
7. Chapter 2. Transposition 27
8. Chapter 3. Nominal constructions 35
9. Chapter 4. Verbal constructions 55
10. Section II. Perspective 67
11. Chapter 5. Modulation 69
12. Chapter 6. Tense and aspect 83
13. Chapter 7. Voice and point of view 101
14. Chapter 8. Sentence modality and illocution 117
15. Section III. Coherence 131
16. Chapter 9. Cohesion 133
17. Chapter 10. Information structure 147
18. Chapter 11. Anaphora and ellipsis 169
19. Chapter 12. Textual coherence 193
20. Bibliography 205
21. Glossary 211
22. Corrections 217
23. Author index 293
24. Index Linguistic Handbook of French 295