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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 2. 3 4 b III.? On the Auxiliary Verbs tn the Romance Languages. By JOSEPH A. FONTAINE/ Diez, in his well-known Grammatik der Romanischen Sprachen has treated the question of the use of the auxiliary verbs in the Romance languages only in a general way, and much must be added, especially as concerns their history. Mr. Gessner in the Jahrbuch fr romanische und englische Sprache und Literatur: neue Folge, III. Band, 2. Heft, has made a very interesting but somewhat complicated study of esse, considered as an auxiliary verb, and has, moreover, noticed important facts that had escaped the attention of Diez. M. Camille Chabanneau in his Histoire et Thorie de la conjugaison franaise has devoted to the auxiliaries a few pages, containing valuable suggestions as to their use; but as a general remark it may be said that he has treated this question too briefly. It may be simply because a full treatment was not directly included in the plan of his work. It may be said also that, in a certain way, M. Chabanneau has explained the use of the auxiliaries according to tendencies prevailing in modern French, and has fallen into the error, common to most grammarians, of trying to explain the inconsistent use of the auxiliaries, especially with the so-called neuter verbs, in accordance with modern usage. So far as I am aware, no one has yet tried to explain the difficult problem by a thorough comparison of modern usage with that of Old French. The main idea of M. Chabanneau is that the auxiliary is nothing but the inflectional part of the main verb. Granting this to be true, such a suggestion is not an historical explanation, and does not account fully for the various and often inconsistent uses of auxiliaries. Let it be admitted that at and suis are merely inflectiona...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217522533
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021752253X
  • Publisher Date: 15 Aug 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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