Rebecca Posner

Linguistic Change in French

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rebecca Posner explores the history of the French language in all its manifestations. Within the framework of modern linguistic theory, she concentrates on how French acquired its distinctive identity and how different varieties of French relate to each other. Copious examples illustrate the more technical aspects of linguistic change. The evidence of social history is set against the way the language has changed over time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 821g
• ISBN-13: 9780198240365
• ISBN-10: 0198240368
• Artikelnr.: 26624140

Autorenporträt

Professor Rebecca Posner has been Professor of Romance Languages, University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hugh's College since 1978. She was made Professor Emeritus in 1996. Previous to this, she was Professor of Romance Languages, University of Ghana, 196365; Reader in Language, University of York, 196578; Visiting Professor of Romance Philology, Columbia University, 197172; and Visiting Senior Fellow, Princeton University, 1983.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1.: Defining the Domain
2.: Sociolinguistic History of French
3.: Processes of Linguistic Change
4.: Lexical Change
5.: Semantic Change
6.: Phonological Change
7.: Morphological Change
8.: Syntactic Change
In Place of a Conclusion
Bibliography