Syllable structure and prosodic words in Early Old French
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2020 This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the phonotactics of syllable rhymes based on all unique tokens in two Early Old French texts. Based on the data from this single, conservative variety, I develop Jacobs’ (1994) proposal that the Old French ...
Thomas M. Rainsford
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Language Contact Effects on Verb Semantic Classes: Lability in Early English and Old French [PDF]
, 2023 Old and Modern English differ sharply in the prevalence of lability, the extent to which verbs alternate between transitive and intransitive frames. Such alternations are often attributed to membership of semantic classes. This study investigates how far
Ingham, Richard +3 more
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A critical edition of the four gospels in the thirteenth-century Old French translation of the Bible
, 2022 The Gospels from the thirteenth-century Old French translation of the Bible (BXIII) are preserved in manuscripts of BXIII and the so-called "Bible Historiale Complétée" (BHC), comprising the latter part of BXITII and most of the Old Testament books of ...
Sneddon, Clive Roderick
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New Paradigms in French Historiography, or the Same Old Ones?
Literature, 2023 This article presents some recent trends in French historiography that concern the relationship between history and literature. Among the recent developments are “experiments” carried out by a few historians, which are characterized by an explicit ...
Monica Martinat
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Quand l’ancien français aide à apprendre le français
Perspectives Médiévales, 2017 L’étude d’œuvres du Moyen-Âge en classe peut être l’occasion d’approcher l’ancien français et d’aborder la langue dans une perspective diachronique. Cette démarche s’accorde tout à fait avec l’esprit des nouveaux programmes de collège, qui invitent à ...
Blandine Longhi
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“Droit au gué de l’Espine vait”. Testi e parole in prestito nel "Lai de l'Espine" [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2019 Scholars have often thought that the narrative layout of the Lai de l’Espine, a brief thirteenth-century composition in langue d’oïl, was to be traced back to a folkloric narrative.
Margherita Lecco
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Possessive Pronouns in European Portuguese and Old French
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2002 The aim of this paper is to bring European Portuguese (EP) data into light, showing that, in spite of the lack of morphological evidence, the syntactic behaviour of possessives, across EP dialects, shows evidences for a tripartite possessive system ...
Matilde Miguel
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Prolegomenes a l’Edition critique de la version Grecque du manuscrit d’Iviron de Barlaam et Joasaph (cod. Athon. Iviron 463) [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2018 The 11th-century Byzantine manuscript Iviron 463 (Mount Athos) contains the abridged Ancient Greek version of the hagiographic romance Barlaam and Joasaph.
Egedi-Kovacs Emese
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I “Vers de la Mort” di Hélinant de Froidmont: citazione e diffusione di una forma metrica [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2019 The Vers de la Mort were composed by the cistercian monk Hélinant de Froidmont between 1194 and 1197, in a metric form created by the author himself and known as ‘Helinant's strophe’, which was later adopted by several writers.
Michela Margani
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Virgil re-purposed in the Old French «Roman d’Eneas»
Carte Romanze, 2015 In these pages, I deal with three “sticky bits” in the twelfth-century Roman d’Eneas (vv. 483-496, 534-539, and 9792-9814). These are vernacular “marvels” that have stumped concerned philologists for at least one hundred years (beginning with Edmond ...
Raymond Cormier
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