This volume presents the work of leading specialists on the particular variety of French found in medieval Britain (Anglo-Norman), and also French in France itself. Other essays deal with the vernacular language of southern France, Occitan.
Professor D. A. Trotter has long been a member of faculty at Aberystwyth University; as Head of Department of European Languages since 1993; Vice-President of the Societe de Linguistique romane; Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1996-2000.
Innehållsförteckning
As thise clerkes seyen - exophoric reference in Middle English an dFrench narrative; "Pots of osey" - Portuguese wine in late-medieval England and its place of origin; negative particle sin Frenchprose of the 12th century; lexical innovation in the "Lumere as Lais"; a polyglot charter of the 12th century; Anglo-Norman rules for the priories of St Mary de Pre and Sopwell; the consular records of Montferrand; unite et diversite du champ semasiologique; mots anglo-normands dans une traduction de la Bible; bilan actuel de la lexicographie de l'ancien occitan; negative particles in French; des interferences picardes dans l'Anglo-Norman dictionary; medieva;l Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English in a civic London text - an inquisition in the Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula.
