R. Anthony Lodge is Professor of French Language and Linguistics at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Le Livre des Manières d'Etienne de Fougères (1979), Le Plus Ancien Registre de comptes des Consuls de Montferrand (1985), French: From Dialect to Standard (1993), Exploring the French Language (With N. Armstrong, Y. Ellis and J. Shelton, 1997) and The Earliest Branches of the Roman de Renart (With K. Varty, 2001).
Part I. Preliminaries
Introduction
1. 'The French of Paris'
2. The analytical frame
Part II. The pre-industrial city
3. The demographic take-off
4. The beginnings of Parisian French
5. The medieval written evidence
Part III. The proto-industrial city
6. Social and sociolinguistic change, 1350-1750
7. Variation in the Renaissance city
8. Variation under the Ancien Regime
9. Salience and reallocation
Part IV. The industrial city
10. Industrial growth, 1750-1950
11. Standardisation and dialect-levelling
12. Lexical variation
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.
