Modern French has Celtic, Latin, and Germanic blood. In modern French, a Romance language, linking, and omitted sounds are Celtic, and adjectives before nouns and changes in the subject and verb order in interrogative sentences are characteristics of Germanic languages. Although European languages originate from the same proto- language, each language has its own unique grammar, reflecting its own history. This book explains the deep structure of French sentences, where complex structures are expressed with fewer syllables due to sound omission. If language is an expression of cognition, then every sentence in every language should be defined by the structure of space-time cognition. We will examine the universal deep structure derived from space-time cognition in French and clarify the characteristics of French.
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