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Du Bellay
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Final Unstressed Syllable
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French Language
French language historical development
French Speaking World
Germanic Loan Words
Henri III
historical linguistics
Hugh Capet
imperfect
Imperfect Subjunctive
Jean Bodel
language standardisation
Le Roy
Literate Minority
Masculine Declension
medieval vernaculars
objects
participle
past
Past Tenses
Philippe De Beaumanoir
phonological change
Pierre De La
Pope Innocent III
Present Subjunctive
pronoun
Robert Estienne
Romance philology
Sixteenth Century Grammarians
sociolinguistic evolution
Strasbourg Oaths
subject
subjunctive
Uneducated Speech
Vice Versa
Villehardouin
Vulgar Latin
Product details
- ISBN 9781138835016
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jul 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This well-established and popular book provides students with all the linguistic background they need for studying any period of French literature. For the second edition the text has been revised and updated throughout, and the two final chapters on contemporary French, and its position as a world language, have been completely rewritten. Starting with a brief description of the Vulgar Latin spoken in Gaul, and the earliest recorded forms of French, Peter Rickard traces the development of the language through the later Middle Ages and Renaissance to show how it became standardized in a near modern form in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
