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Re: Caucasian phonologies and orthographies

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Monday, March 8, 2004, 20:56
Christophe:
> One day I'll just have to write a "true grammar" of French, taking only > the Spoken French evidence, and not looking at its spelling ever :) .
I'm sure I've seen something like this done by more than one linguist, but I can't remember names or details, though I do seem to recall a discussion of it many years ago on Linguistlist. I think one of the issues concerned whether the pronominal morphemes are affixes or clitics. Perhaps the French linguisticistians/glottologists here will know of appropriate references on the grammar of contemporary spoken French? --And.