Download or read book Theoretical Morphology of the French Verb written by James Foley and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analysis of French verbs presented in this monograph is neither a synchronic nor a diachronic description, but rather a theoretical achronic analysis whose goal is the explanation of the historical phonetic development of the French verb in terms of changes in the underlying abstract morphological forms. One of the basic premises of this book is that the French superficial phonetic forms are not derived from the Latin superficial phonetic forms, but that both are derived from abstract etymological forms.