From Latin to Modern French with Especial Consideration of Anglo-Norman
Author: Mildred Katharine Pope
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1952
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780719001765
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The Anglo-Norman Language and Its Contexts
Author: Richard Ingham
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1903153301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms.
The Transmission of Anglo-Norman
Author: Richard P. Ingham
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2012-10-17
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9027273340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis investigation contributes to issues in the study of second language transmission by considering the well-documented historical case of Anglo-Norman. Within a few generations of the establishment of this variety, its phonology diverged sharply from that of continental French, yet core syntactic distinctions continued to be reliably transmitted. The dissociation of phonology from syntax transmission is related to the age of exposure to the language in the experience of ordinary users of the language. The input provided to children acquiring language in a naturalistic communicative setting, even though one of a school institution, enabled them to acquire target-like syntactic properties of the inherited variety. In addition, it allowed change to take place along the lines of transmission by incrementation. A linguistic environment combining the ‘here-and-now’ aspects of ordinary first language acquisition with the growing cognitive complexity of an educational meta-language appears to have been adequate for this variety to be transmitted as a viable entity that encoded the public life of England for centuries.
Reimagining History in Anglo-Norman Prose Chronicles
Author: John Spence
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 190315345X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe medieval Anglo-Norman prose chronicles are fascinating hybrids of history, legends and romance. Their prime subject is the history of England, but they also shed much light on other networks of influence, such as those between families and religious houses. This book studies the essential characteristics of the genre for the first time, situating Anglo-Norman prose chronicles within the multilingual cultures of late medieval England. It considers the chronicles' treatment of the ""legendary history of Britain"", legends about English heroes, accounts of the Norman Conquest, and histories o.
Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures
Author: Richard North
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-26
Total Pages: 1415
ISBN-13: 1000154084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures provides a scholarly and accessible introduction to the literature which was the inspiration for many of the heroes of modern popular culture, from The Lord of the Rings to The Chronicles of Narnia, and which set the foundations of the English language and its literature as we know it today. Edited, translated and annotated by the editors of Beowulf and Other Stories, the anthology introduces readers to the rich and varied literature of Britain, Scandinavia and France of the period in and around the Viking Age. Ranging from the Old English epic Beowulf through to the Anglo-Norman texts which heralded the transition Middle English, thematically organised chapters present elegies, eulogies, laments and followed by material on the Viking Wars in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Vikings gods and Icelandic sagas, and a final chapter on early chivalry introduces the new themes and forms which led to Middle English literature, including Arthurian Romances and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Laying out in parallel text format selections from the most important Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman works, this anthology presents translated and annotated texts with useful bibliographic references, prefaced by a headnote providing useful background and explanation.
The French of Medieval England
Author: Thelma S. Fenster
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1843844591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent research has emphasised the importance of insular French in medieval English culture alongside English and Latin; for a period of some four hundred years, French (variously labelled the French of England, Anglo-Norman, Anglo-French, and Insular French) rivalled these two languages. The essays here focus on linguistic adaptation and translation in this new multilingual England, where John Gower wrote in Latin while his contemporary Chaucer could break new ground in English.
National and Regional Trends in Romance Linguistics and Philology
Author: Rebecca Posner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-04-20
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 3110825880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Orality and Performance in Early French Romance
Author: Evelyn Birge Vitz
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780859915380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book proposes a fundamental revision of the history of early French romance: it argues that oral and performed traditions were far more important in the development of romance than scholars have recognised. Starting with issues of orality and literacy, it is argued that the form in which romances were composed was not the invention of clerics but was, rather, an oral form. The second part of the book looks at performance, and shows that romances such as those of Chretien invited voiced presentation; moreover, they were frequently recited from memory, sung, and acted out in dramatic fashion. Romances can, and should, still be performed today.
Ego-histories of France and the Second World War
Author: Manuel Bragança
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-03-21
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 3319708600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, film and cultural studies who have dedicated a considerable part of their career to researching the history and memories of France during the Second World War. Basedin five different countries, Margaret Atack, Marc Dambre, Laurent Douzou, Hilary Footitt, Robert Gildea, Richard J. Golsan, Bertram M. Gordon, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Nettelbeck, Denis Peschanski, Renée Poznanski, Henry Rousso, Peter Tame, and Susan Rubin Suleiman have playeda crucial role in shaping and reshaping what has become a thought-provoking field of research. This volume, which also includes an interview with historian Robert O. Paxton, clarifies the rationales and driving forces behind their work and thus behind our current understanding of one of the darkest and most vividly remembered pages of history in contemporary France.
Historical Linguistics 2005
Author: Joe Salmons
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9789027247995
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