Interpreting the History of French / Rodney Sampson, Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Peter Rickard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sampson, Rodney, 1944- author.

Ayres-Bennett, Wendy, author.

Rickard, Peter, author.

Series:

Faux Titre Series

Faux Titre Series ; v.226

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French language--History.

French language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 373 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : BRILL, 2002.

Summary:

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:

Introduction. Published works of Peter Rickard (books and articles). List of contributors. Part I: Interpreting textual evidence. Sophie MARNETTE: The Evolution of Reported Discourse in Medieval French: An Overview. Clive SNEDDON: Rewriting the Old French Bible: the New Testament and Evolving Reader Expectations in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries. Jacques-Philippe SAINT-GÉRAND: Mediaeval Revival, ou, comment le français prit conscience de son histoire à l'époque romantique. Part II : Interpreting forms and structures. Yves Charles MORIN: The Phonological Status of Nasal Vowels in Sixteenth-century French. Rodney SAMPSON: A Transient Nasal Vowel in Early Modern French: i nasal. Christian SCHMITT: Aspects historiques de la normalisation du système verbal français: le point de vue extra-hexagonal. Marc WILMET : L'accord du participe passé avant la grammaire scolaire. Lene SCHØSLER : La variation linguistique : le cas de l'expression sujet. William KEMP : L'introduction et la diffusion de patrie en français au seizième siècle. David SINGLETON : Crosslinguistic Operations in the Mental Lexicon and Lexical Change. Part III: Interpreting the sociolinguistic and the metalinguistic. Anthony LODGE: The Medieval Sources of Standardisation in French. Jakob WÜEST: Marques d'oralité et conventions littéraires dans les anciens textes en français populaire. Douglas A. KIBBEE: Growing Pains: Territorial expansion and Language Policy in France from Villers-Cotterêts to the Revolution. Philippe CARON: Vers la notion de chronolecte? Quelques jalons à propos du français préclassique. Wendy AYRES-BENNETT : An Evolving Genre : Seventeenth-century Remarques and Observations on the French Language. Index.

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ISBN:

90-04-48600-3

OCLC:

1294378777