La conjugaison des verbes dans les grammaires du français des XIXe et XXe siècles
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Universidad de Granada
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ISSN: 1961-9359
Year of publication: 2016
Issue Title: Pour une contextualisation de la grammaire français en Espagne
Issue: 9
Pages: 123-142
Type: Article
More publications in: Synergies Espagne
Abstract
This article examines the descriptions of the conjugation of French verbs contained in a series of French grammars edited in France and in Spain, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The study emphasizes the configuration of a dominant “grammatical knowledge”, in which verbs are classified depending on the ending of the infinitive, a knowledge shared by different discourses, both academic and professional as well as popularized or ordinary. This view, strongly embedded in the social and professional milieu, produces enormous difficulties in order that an alternative description of the French conjugation (as it is the case in studies of phonetics, whose description is based on the grouping of verbs on the variations of the root) penetrates the grammars and thus classroom practice.