An Introduction to Old French

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A popular, extensive textbook of Old French. Cover Map: Old French Dialect Areas, 12th-13th c. Map: Germanic Invasions, 4th-6th c. Contents Abbreviations and Symbols Select Bibliography Introduction CHAP. 1: basics, article forms CHAP. 2: article usage, noun inflection Phonology 2: Consonants in Latin and Old French CHAP. 3: basic noun declensions, avoir and estre Phonology 3: Vowels in Latin and Old French CHAP. 4: other noun declensions, 'un' indefinites Phonology 4: Syllabification, Accent CHAP. 5: cases, the verb system, weak verbs Phonology 5: Vulgar Latin, OF tenses CHAP. 6: noun group word order, determiners, chose and rien Phonology 6: Accented vowels, Checked vowels CHAP. 7: personal pronouns, on, compound tenses Phonology 7: Free vowels, Pronouns CHAP. 8: stressed pronouns, active and passive, impersonal verbs, indicative Phonology 8: Nasalization, yod, Au CHAP. 9: demonstratives, the strong present, prepositions Phonology 9: Vocalic and syllabic alternation CHAP. 10: infinitives, future, hypotheticals Phonology 10: Development of OF conjugations CHAP. 11: adverbial, relative and interrogative pronouns Phonology 11: Consonants by environment CHAP. 12: possessives, politeness, adjectives, tot Phonology 12: Intervocalic consonants, adjectives CHAP. 13: elision, interrogative pronouns, adverb types, negation Phonology 13: Groups of three, two consonants CHAP. 14: ambiguous adverbs, -ment adverbs Phonology 14: Consonants plus R or L, Supporting vowel CHAP. 15: par por en prepositions, tant and tel indefinites, el Phonology 15: Consonants plus yod CHAP. 16: numbers and measures, adverbs of time Phonology 16: Anglo-Norman CHAP. 17: imperative, weak preterites, manner and place adverbs Phonology 17: Anglo-Norman orthography, Old French weak preterites CHAP. 18: strong preterites, strong possessives Phonology 18: Anglo-Norman morphology, Old French strong preterites CHAP. 19: degree adverbs, comparisons, adv. expressions, indef. qualifiers Phonology 19: Norman, W, S, SW dialects CHAP. 20: worded punctuation, relatives and interrogatives Phonology 20: Picard CHAP. 21: conjunctions, special auxiliaries Phonology 21: Picard phonology CHAP. 22: past participles Phonology 22: Picard morphology CHAP. 23: versification, -ant, the subjunctive Phonology 23: Norman, Walloon, E Dialects TEXTUAL EMENDATIONS GLOSSARY GENERAL INDEX PHONOLOGY INDEX