Abstract
This limited treatment of French verb morphology is intended to exemplify the principles of generative phonology. The finite verb is represented as a sequence of morphemes: stem (+ conjugation vowel) + tense marker + person ending. For each morpheme there is a unique underlying phonological representation, exhibiting structural regularities which are not overtly marked at the phonetic level. A sequence of morphemes thus represented is then subjected to the ordered set of morphophonemic rules, the end result being the phonetic representation of the sequence in question. The rules, in addition, furnish an explanation for certain morphological and phonological phenomena observable within the verb conjugation.
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