A TRANSFORMATIONAL SKETCH OF OLD FRENCH.

In 1961, Simon Belasco published a paper entitled "The Role of Transformation Grammar and Tagmemics in the Analysis of an Old French Text." He attempts to show in the paper that transformational analysis is "cumbersome" in the case of Old French. It is the aim of this article to contradict Belasco's arguments. The author seeks to present that Belasco's transformational sketch of Old French is called transformational quite erroneously. The author then presents another sketch of reasonable adequacy.