The grammar identifies gaps in existing resources and emphasizes adverbial adjectives for university-level French learners, implying improved language acquisition.
A Comprehensive Grammar of Spoken and Written French (CGSWF) is a novel academic grammar informed by the Corpus de référence du français contemporain (CRFC, Siepmann, Bürgel, and Diwersy, 2015) and other mega corpora. Designed for university-level learners of French as a Foreign Language (FFL), this work identifies and resolves gaps found in existing grammars. The present article outlines the guiding principles behind the grammar’s development and illustrates its distinctive approach with examples of specific grammar points, including time adverbials, the preposition en , adverbial adjectives, nominal constructions, and the adjectives maint and moult . Comparison is made with the Grande Grammaire du français (GGF, Abeillé & Godard, 2021 ) to bring out CGSWF’s originality and relevance for non-native learners at an advanced level.
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