From Latin to Modern French

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A new and complete scan of Mildred Katherine Pope's From Latin to Modern French (1934), from a 1966 reprint. This is a different and far more legible scan than the PDF version that has been available up to now. It has been paginated and extensively bookmarked for ease of use. Cover Preface List of Phonetic Symbols with Key-words List of Abbreviations List of Works Cited Table of Contents Chronological List of Middle and Early Modern French Grammarians Bibliography Part I EXTERNAL HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE Chapter I Late Latin Chapter II Formation of French Chapter III Formation of Standard French Part II PHONOLOGY Chapter I Phonetic Introduction Chapter II Chronological Survey of Sound-Changes Chapter III Isolative Changes Chapter IV Influence of Position in the Word Chapter V Influence of Expiratory Word-Accent Chapter VI Palatalization of Consonants Chapter VII Voicing and Opening of Single Breathed and Plosive... Chapter VIII Reduction of Lengthened Consonants and Intervocalic Consonantal Groups Chapter IX Development of the l-Sounds and r Chapter X Influence Exercised by Palatal Sounds on Vowels Chapter XI Influence Exercised by Nasal Consonants on Vowels Chapter XII Influence Exercised by Labial Sounds on Vowels Chapter XIII Influence Exercised by the l-Sounds and r on Vowels Chapter XIV Levelling of Diphthongs Chapter XV Vowel Lengthening in Middle French Chapter XVI Quality of Vowels in Later Old and Middle French Chapter XVII Influence of Syntactical Phonetics Chapter XVIII Loan-Words Chapter XIX Sound Tables Part III ORTHOGRAPHY Chapter I Period I--Old French Chapter II Period II--Thirteenth Century, Middle and Early Modern France PART IV MORPHOLOGY Chapter I Contamination and Analogy Chapter II Substantives and Adjectives Chapter III Pronouns Chapter IV Verbs Verb Tables PART V ANGLO-NORMAN Chapter I Introductory Chapter II Phonology Chapter III Orthography Chapter IV Declension Chapter V Verbs Survey of Development List of texts cited List of MSS. cited List of Abbreviated Titles of Modern Works on Anglo-Norman APPENDIX Conspectus of Dialectal Traits Index of French and Latin Words Index of English Words Index of Verbs and Verbal Forms Subject Index