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| List of figures | |
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| List of tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Defining the object of study | |
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| French is plural | |
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| Prescriptivism and the idea of 'standard' French | |
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| Francophonie | |
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| Variation 'omnibus' | |
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| Geographical variation | |
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| Social variation | |
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| Looking ahead | |
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| Phonetics and phonology | |
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| Preliminaries | |
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| Sounds, spelling, and the IPA | |
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| Phonetic symbols | |
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| Phonetic values of letters and letter sequences | |
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| Phonemes, minimal pairs, and allophones | |
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| Vowels and glides | |
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| Oral vowels | |
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| Laxing | |
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| Devoicing | |
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| Mid vowels | |
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| Diphthongs | |
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| Open vowels | |
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| Nasal vowels | |
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| What is nasalization? | |
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| Northern Metropolitan French | |
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| Southern French and French in North America | |
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| On the phonological status of nasal vowels | |
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| Glides | |
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| What are glides? | |
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| The general process of gliding | |
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| The front and back rounded glides /y/ and /w/ | |
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| The palatal glide /j/ | |
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| Consonants | |
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| Phonation types | |
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| Places of articulation | |
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| Manners of articulation | |
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| Stops and fricatives | |
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| Affricates | |
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| Trills and approximants | |
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| Assimilatory processes | |
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| Voicing assimilation | |
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| Place assimilation | |
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| Other assimilatory processes | |
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| Lengthening | |
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| Geminates | |
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| Beyond the segment | |
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| From phonemes to syllables | |
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| The internal structure of syllables | |
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| Distributing segments in syllables | |
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| From syllables to phrases | |
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| The foot | |
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| The phonological word | |
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| The clitic group | |
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| The phonological phrase | |
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| At the top of the hierarchy | |
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| The schwa | |
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| Why call the schwa a schwa? | |
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| Schwa and dialect | |
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| Phrase-final schwas | |
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| Phrase-medial schwas | |
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| Phrase-initial schwas | |
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| Schwas and morphological alternations | |
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| Liaison and enchainement | |
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| From forward syllabification to liaison | |
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| Liaison and h-aspire | |
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| Liaison and syntax, morphology, and the lexicon | |
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| Liaison without enchainement | |
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| On stress, accent, and intonation | |
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| Stress and accent | |
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| A phonological model of French intonation | |
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| Notes on stress clash | |
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| Intonation | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Topics in morphology and syntax | |
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| Preliminaries: words and morphemes | |
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| Topics in inflectional morphology | |
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| The morphology of the verb | |
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| The morphology of other morpheme classes | |
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| Topics in syntax | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Surface and deep structures | |
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| The verb | |
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| The arguments of the verb | |
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| Verb types and complements | |
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| Adverbials as modifiers | |
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| Clauses as modifiers and complements | |
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| Noun phrases | |
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| Expanding the NP | |
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| Post-head position in the NP | |
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| Pre-head position in the NP | |
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| 'Determiners' | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Subject pronouns of etre | |
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| Impersonal il and ce | |
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| Clitic pronouns | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| The intensifiers si, tant, and tellement | |
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| Sentence and VP adverbs | |
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| Negation | |
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| Negatives and their positions | |
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| Meaning and scope | |
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| Negatives and style | |
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| Passive 'voice' | |
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| Types of passive construction | |
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| Tense and aspect in passives | |
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| Passive verbs and their complements | |
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| On interrogatives | |
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| Yes-no questions | |
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| Partial questions | |
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| The atypical pourquoi 'why' | |
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| Simple inversion and the complements of verbs | |
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| Questioning the subject | |
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| Questioning the object | |
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| Questions, styles, and register | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Lexicology and derivational morphology | |
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| Preliminaries | |
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| Analyzing the meaning of words | |
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| Semic analysis | |
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| Prototypes and stereotypes | |
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| Semantic relations | |
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| Synonyms and antonyms | |
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| Hierarchical relations | |
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| Homonymy and polysemy | |
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| Change of meaning | |
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| Metaphor | |
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| Metonymy | |
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| Synecdoche | |
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| Word formation | |
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| Derivation | |
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| Derivation by affixation | |
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| Deverbal nouns | |
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| Deadjectival nouns | |
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| Denominal nouns | |
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| Derivation by prefixation | |
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| Parasynthetic nouns | |
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| Truncation | |
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| Conversion and reduplication | |
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| Compounding | |
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| Borrowing | |
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| Lexical variation | |
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| Regional variation | |
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| Social variation and word games | |
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| State intervention in French vocabulary | |
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| A case study: the feminization of professional titles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Pragmatics | |
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| Preliminaries | |
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| Referring and indexing | |
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| Indexical expressions | |
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| Deictic reference | |
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| Other types of references | |
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| Speech acts and models of communication | |
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| The Code Model of communication | |
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| Inferential models of communication | |
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| The Maxims of conversation | |
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| Applying the Maxims | |
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| Beyond the Model Speaker | |
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| Politeness | |
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| Bald-on-record | |
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| Positive politeness | |
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| Informal tu and formal vous | |
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| Generic tu, vous, and on | |
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| Negative politeness | |
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| Indirect speech acts | |
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| Hedging and indirectness | |
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| Discourse particles | |
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| Off-record | |
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| Politeness: in the eye of the beholder | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Historical perspectives | |
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| Preliminaries | |
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| Latin and the linguistic prehistory of French | |
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| Phonology from Latin to Early Old French | |
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| Vowels | |
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| Consonants | |
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| Accentuation | |
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| Morphology and syntax from Latin to Early Old French | |
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| The morphology of nouns | |
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| The morphology of adjectives | |
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| Personal, demonstrative, and relative pronouns | |
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| The morphology of verbs | |
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| Syntax and word order | |
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| Vocabulary from Latin to Early Old French | |
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| Non-Latin elements in the vocabulary of Latin | |
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| Adverb formation | |
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| Pragmatic aspects of language use from Latin to Early Old French | |
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| Forms of address | |
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| Summary | |
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| Old and Middle French | |
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| Phonology in Old and Middle French | |
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| Vowels | |
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| Consonants | |
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| Morphology and syntax in Old and Middle French | |
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| Nouns and adjectives | |
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| The syntax of the noun phrase | |
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| Word order | |
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| Negation | |
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| Interrogatives | |
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| Vocabulary in Old and Middle French | |
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| Pragmatic aspects of language use in Old and Middle French | |
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| French in the modern world | |
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| Phonology in Classical and Modern French | |
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| Vowels | |
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| Consonants | |
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| Morphology and syntax in Classical and Modern French | |
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| Auxiliary selection: etre ou avoir? | |
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| Types of interrogative and ne deletion | |
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| Vocabulary in Classical and Modern French | |
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| Pragmatic aspects of language use in Classical and Modern French | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Name index | |
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| Subject index | |