University of Michigan Publications: Language and literature, Volume 11

adverbial clauses affirmative antecedent antonyms appears assertive authors become Calv causative certainty ceste CHAPTER chose Chrétien de Troyes Commynes concessive conditional sentence conjunctive locutions connection consecutive clauses declarative expressions declarative verbs denoting dependent clause Desp doubte earlier emotion employ employed employment estre example exceptional expressing fact faict Fail find the subjunctive first followed following French frequently Froiss future Gaut general Henri Estienne Heptaméron iamais impersonal indicates indicative inherently negative interrogative j'ay Jean Froissart junctive language Malh Malherbe Marg Maupas merely Michigan modal syntax modality mood usage mout negating circumstances negative verbs noted objective clause occasionally occurs optative oratorical ordinarily Paliss past past tenses period practice preceding predominant protasis purpose clause qlqn qu'ilz result Rons rule same sense seroit sixteenth century study subject subjunctive usage suppositive tendency tense tive usage is erratic Vair Vaugelas volition vray wonder works