In:On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader
William J. Ashby
[Studies in Language Companion Series 226] 2023
► pp. 29–54
A data-driven glossing philosophy of Spoken French
Variable, radical prefixal glossing
Published online: 2 March 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.226.c1
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.226.c1
Article outline
- 1.Utterances with inflectional prefixes
- 1.1Nouns with prefixes
- 1.2Verbs with prefixes
- 1.2.1Verbs with prefixes: Agreement (subject/object)
- 1.2.2Verbs with prefixes: Tense/aspect/mood (TAM)
- 2.Utterances without inflectional prefixes
- 2.1Nouns without prefixes
- 2.1.1Bare nouns
- 2.1.2Nouns with preceding adjective
- 2.2Verbs without prefixes
- 2.2.1Verbs without prefixes: Agreement
- 2.2.1.1Personal verbs without agreement prefixes
- 2.2.1.1.1Personal verbs without agreement prefixes
- 2.2.1.1.2Personal verbs without agreement prefixes but with audible suffixes
- 2.2.1.1.3Personal verbs without agreement prefixes and without audible suffixes
- 2.2.1.2Impersonal verbs without agreement prefixes
- 2.2.1.1Personal verbs without agreement prefixes
- 2.2.2Verbs without prefixes: TAM
- 2.2.2.1Verbs without TAM prefixes but with audible TAM suffixes
- 2.2.2.2Separability: Negation and/or other intervening adverbs
- 2.2.1Verbs without prefixes: Agreement
- 2.1Nouns without prefixes
- 3.Utterances with overt subjects
- 4.Utterances without overt subjects
- 4.1Pro: Personal verbs (i.e., where a referential subject is possible, but absent)
- 4.2#: Impersonal verbs (i.e., where a referential subject impossible, and therefore absent)
- 5.Formatting and abbreviations
- 5.1Formatting conventions for discourse-level examples
- 5.2List of glossing abbreviations
Notes References Appendix
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