Syntactic Borrowing in Contemporary French

This book presents the large-scale investigation of syntactic borrowing in contemporary French. The investigation centres on an aspect of syntactic borrowing that can be subject to the kind of rigorous analysis that is required of linguistic studies to provide an understanding of news translation. Introduction 1. Research Context and Methodology 2. The Adjective 3. The Passive 4. The Verbal -ant Forms 5. Findings and Implications 6. Conclusion