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French Morphology: Verb Inflection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

George L. Trager*
Affiliation:
American University

Extract

In 1944 I published an article, The verb morphology of spoken French (Lg. 20.131-41). Leonard Bloomfield then published On describing inflection, Monatshefte für deutschen Unterricht 37.8-13 (1945), calling it a ‘less rigorous statement ... which can be compared with G. Trager's rigorous account.‘ In 1947 Robert A. Hall Jr. published Colloquial French verb inflection (Romance philology 1.39-50), and included the same analysis in his French (Lg. Mon. 24, 1948). Since then there have appeared Th. de Félice's Eléments de grammaire morphologique (Paris, 1950), reviewed by me in Lg. 27.200-1 (1951), and K. Togeby's Structure immanente de la langue française (Copenhagen, 1951); these two works are not limited to verbs.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1955 by the Linguistic Society of America

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