Interpreting the History of French: A Festschrift for Peter Rickard on the Occasion of His Eightieth BirthdayRodney Sampson, Wendy Ayres-Bennett Rodopi, 2002 - 373 pages From the contents: The evolution of reported discourse in medieval French: an overview (Sophie Marnette). - The phonological status of nasal vowels in sixteenth-century French (Yves Charles Morin). - Aspects historiques de la normalisation du systeme verbal francais: le point de vue extra-hexagonal (Christian Schmitt). - L'accord du 'participe passe' avant la grammaire scolaire (Marc Wilmet)." |
Contents
X | 28 |
CLIVE SNEDDON | 35 |
JACQUESPHILIPPE SAINTGÉRAND | 61 |
YVES CHARLES MORIN | 95 |
RODNEY SAMPSON | 131 |
CHRISTIAN SCHMITT | 151 |
MARC WILMET | 181 |
LENE SCHØSLER | 195 |
WILLIAM KEMP | 213 |
Common terms and phrases
Alsace appears author Baïf Buridant Cambridge century chansons de geste chronolecte clear composition context Crapelet dialect dialectologie dictionary different diphthong Droz earlier early edition ending error examples Facsimile features Féraud first followed following forms found francien François Génin François Ier French Language Genève grammaire Histoire isoglosses koinè langue française Lanoue Lanoue's later Latin learned words less lexical linguistic linguistique make manuscripts medieval Meigret moderne narrator nasal consonants nasal vowel nasalisation noted number occurrences Old French Bible oral norm oral vowel patrie perhaps period philologie phonetic phonological prefix present pronounced pronunciation prose Ramus Raynouard reference reported discourse representation revision Rickard Robert Estienne Roman same sequence shows Slatkine Sneddon speakers speech spelling spoken standard language states of text sujets syllable syntax time Titus translation translator Tübingen University used variation variety Vaugelas Vaugelas's verbes vernacular verse word-final work writing written XVIe siècle
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