TY - BOOK AU - Battye,Adrian AU - Hintze,Marie-Anne TI - The French language today SN - 041507813X AV - PC2105 .B37 1992 U1 - 440 20 PY - 1992/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - French language KW - Grammar KW - Variation N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-368) and index; Preface to the second edition --; Preface to the first edition --; Acknowledgements --; 1; The external history of the French language: the standardisation of French and its distribution in the world today --; 2; The sound system of French --; 3; French word structure --; 4; The sentence structure of French --; 5; Varieties of French --; App. I; Dialects and regional languages --; App. II; French in the world --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index ER -