J. Herschensohn, APPLYING LINGUISTICS TO TEACH MORPHOLOGY - VERB AND ADJECTIVE INFLECTION IN FRENCH, IRAL. International review of applied linguistics in language teaching, 31(2), 1993, pp. 97-112
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43
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Language & Linguistics","Education & Educational Research
This paper explores the application of generative morphophonological a
nalysis to the teaching of French morphology, proposing a cohesive and
systematic presentation of inflection based on the spoken language. I
t argues that French verb and adjective stems fall into two classes, v
ariable and invariable, and that a single morphological rule accounts
succinctly for alternations of the variable forms. The first part of t
he paper contrasts typical French textbook descriptions of verb and ad
jective paradigms with linguistic analyses of the same data. The secon
d part proposes a simplified description which draws on linguistic ana
lysis. The conclusion discusses the pedagogical advantages of the simp
lified presentation.