Reviews for Syntax of French

The average rating for Syntax of French based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-15 00:00:00 Danny Clark This is more of a reference book for me. I've read various articles from it and look forward to doing more of the same.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-06-11 00:00:00 GIAMPAOLO ZANON Mark Halpern took an introduction to linguistics class and a class on Old English as a college student many years before; he doesn't mention in this book, whether or not he knows any languages other than English. Yet he feels competent enough to write a whole book attacking academic linguistics for disdaining linguistic prescriptivism, and thus contributing to the degradation of the English language. He attributes this disdain to the linguists' left-wing and progressive bias. I was reminded of the claim on a Russian left-wing site that Russia's transition to capitalism in the early 1990s has been stripping the Russian language of noun and verb morphology.