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Your best first reference to the French language

As you begin studying the French language, you must have a reliable bilingual dictionary with the basic words you need, not the advanced terms you don't. With McGraw-Hill's French Student Dictionary you'll find what you need quickly and easily--without being overwhelmed with text.

This book features:

• 3,500 essential words, each with grammatical information, easy-to-use pronunciation guide, verb conjugation (when appropriate), and an example sentence
• Numerous subentries to explain shades of meaning...

Parce que, pourtant, par la, apres que etc. sont des connecteurs contenant des prepositions. L'etude propose une analyse systematique des connecteurs prepositionnels dans des textes authentiques contemporains et historiques et reunit ainsi les domaines de recherche sur les prepositions et les connecteurs, qui, jusqu'a present, n'ont porte qu'une attention marginale a l'element prepositionnel des connecteurs. Sous la loupe semantique et pragmatique, l'etude opte pour approche>corpus driven

It's easy to assume that French words mean the same as English words, when they look and sound pretty much the same. Most of the time you'd be correct. However, some of these word pairs may have completely different meanings. They are called false friends, or "faux amis."

These "faux amis" can cause misunderstandings, uncomfortable situations, and even embarrassment if you use them in conversation and they mean something entirely different than what you expected. This book is written to help you avoid these awkward misunderstandings.

This book isn't a dry list of "faux amis." It's...

La collection Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) a l'ambition de presenter un panorama d'ensemble de la linguistique romane tenant compte des derniers acquis de la recherche. Elle comprendra une soixantaine de volumes qui pourront etre utilises separement tout en offrant dans leur totalite une bonne approche globale de l'eventail actuel de la linguistique romane. L'accent sera mis en particulier sur les linguae minores auxquelles les deux grands ouvrages de references de la discipline, le Dictionnaire de la linguistique romane (Lexikon der Romanistischen...