Table of Contents

Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I: Understanding French Sentence Structure
1: Simple sentences and their basic constituents
2: The internal structure of clause constituents
3: Complex sentence structures
4: Subordinate clauses
Part II: The Grammar of French Verbs
5: Finite verb forms: Mood
6: Finite verb forms: Tense
7: Finite verb forms: Aspect
8: Finite verb forms: Auxiliaries
9: Non-finite verb forms: The infinitive
10: Non-finite verb forms: The past participle
11: 11. Non-finite verb forms: The present participle and the gérondif
Part III: The Grammar of French Nominals
12: Definite and indefinite determiners
13: Adjectives within the noun phrase
14: Pronouns: Overview
15: Personal and reflexive pronouns
16: Neutral pronouns
17: Pronominal adverbs
18: Possessives and demonstratives
19: Interrogative and relative pronouns and adverbs
20: Indefinites
Part IV: The Grammar of French Particles
21: Prepositions
22: Adverbs, interjections, and coordinating conjunctions
Part V: The Grammar of French Clauses and Sentences
23: Negation and restriction
24: Word order
25: Voice
26: Dislocation, (pseudo-)clefts, and presentative constructions
Further reading
Appendix A: Overview of grammatical functions
Appendix B: Word classes in French
Appendix C: Subordinate clause types in French
Appendix D: Examples of sentence analyses to word level
Appendix E: Overview of the French tenses

About the Author

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen is Professor of French Language and Linguistics at the University of Manchester. She holds a PhD and Higher Doctorate in French Linguistics from the University of Copenhagen, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2013. She is the author of The Function of Discourse Particles: A Study with Special Reference to Spoken Standard French (Benjamins, 1996), and Particles at the
Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: Synchronic and Diachronic Issues (Elsevier/Brill, 2008) and of numerous journal articles and book chapters in the areas of French grammar, linguistics, and pragmatics, from both a synchronic and
diachronic point of view.

Reviews

I would highly recommend this book, particularly to English-speaking students who are looking to acquire a deeper understanding of the most complicated structures found in standard French. Thorough, accessible, and rich in examples and illustrations, this work should establish itself as standard reference both for students and teachers of French as a foreign language.
*Damien Gaucher, Journal of French Language Studies*

This well-written advanced students' reference grammar of French integrates traditional grammar with some well-chosen insights from modern linguistics. It is highly accessible for student and teacher ... This book will improve students' ability to understand formal written French texts, including literary ones. I wish it had been available when I last taught advanced French. I highly recommend it.
*Linda R. Waugh, University of Arizona*

The teaching of French grammar in UK secondary and higher education has long been seen as a dreary and arbitrary enunciation of rights and wrongs. This has left many advanced learners and teachers of French starved of a deeper understanding of the principles underlying grammatical rules and of knowledge about the structure of French that linguistics provides. Mosegaard Hansen's book fills this void admirably ... as a lucid and accessible guide to understanding.
*Anthony Lodge, University of St Andrews*