An Introduction to Old French

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A popular, extensive textbook of Old French.

Author(s): Kibler, William W.
Series: Introduction to older languages
Publisher: The Modern Language Association of America
Year: 1984

Language: English
Pages: 366
Tags: old french,medieval french,medieval romance,romance languages

Cover
Map: Old French Dialect Areas, 12th-13th c.
Map: Germanic Invasions, 4th-6th c.

Contents

Abbreviations and Symbols
Select Bibliography
Introduction

CHAP. 1: basics, article forms
CHAP. 2: article usage, noun inflection
Phonology 2: Consonants in Latin and Old French
CHAP. 3: basic noun declensions, avoir and estre
Phonology 3: Vowels in Latin and Old French
CHAP. 4: other noun declensions, 'un' indefinites
Phonology 4: Syllabification, Accent
CHAP. 5: cases, the verb system, weak verbs
Phonology 5: Vulgar Latin, OF tenses
CHAP. 6: noun group word order, determiners, chose and rien
Phonology 6: Accented vowels, Checked vowels
CHAP. 7: personal pronouns, on, compound tenses
Phonology 7: Free vowels, Pronouns
CHAP. 8: stressed pronouns, active and passive, impersonal verbs, indicative
Phonology 8: Nasalization, yod, Au
CHAP. 9: demonstratives, the strong present, prepositions
Phonology 9: Vocalic and syllabic alternation
CHAP. 10: infinitives, future, hypotheticals
Phonology 10: Development of OF conjugations
CHAP. 11: adverbial, relative and interrogative pronouns
Phonology 11: Consonants by environment
CHAP. 12: possessives, politeness, adjectives, tot
Phonology 12: Intervocalic consonants, adjectives
CHAP. 13: elision, interrogative pronouns, adverb types, negation
Phonology 13: Groups of three, two consonants
CHAP. 14: ambiguous adverbs, -ment adverbs
Phonology 14: Consonants plus R or L, Supporting vowel
CHAP. 15: par por en prepositions, tant and tel indefinites, el
Phonology 15: Consonants plus yod
CHAP. 16: numbers and measures, adverbs of time
Phonology 16: Anglo-Norman
CHAP. 17: imperative, weak preterites, manner and place adverbs
Phonology 17: Anglo-Norman orthography, Old French weak preterites
CHAP. 18: strong preterites, strong possessives
Phonology 18: Anglo-Norman morphology, Old French strong preterites
CHAP. 19: degree adverbs, comparisons, adv. expressions, indef. qualifiers
Phonology 19: Norman, W, S, SW dialects
CHAP. 20: worded punctuation, relatives and interrogatives
Phonology 20: Picard
CHAP. 21: conjunctions, special auxiliaries
Phonology 21: Picard phonology
CHAP. 22: past participles
Phonology 22: Picard morphology
CHAP. 23: versification, -ant, the subjunctive
Phonology 23: Norman, Walloon, E Dialects

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GLOSSARY

GENERAL INDEX
PHONOLOGY INDEX