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Atlas des formes et des constructions des chartes françaises du 13e siècle
De Gruyter 1980; US$ 147.00Atlas des formes et des constructions des chartes françaises du 13e siècle. more...
Courts of Love, Castles of Hate
The History Press 2011; US$ 29.15The figure of the Troubadour combines the ideals of knighthood with the inspiration of the poet and musician and created a cultural explosion which influenced the whole course of Western art and civilisation. Burl traces the story from the birth of the first Troubadour in 1071 to the execution of the last Cathar Good Man in 1231 and the close of the... more...
Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords
BRILL 2008; US$ 278.00A survey of Arabic and allied loanwords in Western languages is a first-rate tool to asses the impact of Islamic factors in the emergence and background of Western civilization. The Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula are in an ideal position for this kind of research, considering the length and strength of Muslim states on its soil. more...
Dictionary of Louisiana French
University Press of Mississippi 2009; US$ 38.00The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River,... more...
Dictionnaire d'ancien occitan auvergnat
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 391.00This Dictionary of old occitan from Auvergne is based on original manuscripts produced during the 1340?1540 period by consular, seigniorial and religious authorities. This dictionary contains about 7,000 entries and more than 12,000 definitions representing words and expressions mainly of the juridical, commercial, artisanal and military domains. All... more...
Dictionnaire onomasiologique de l'ancien gascon (DAG). Fasicule 14
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 63.00This dictionary of the Old Gascon language used in official documents deals with the lexis of South-Western France from the beginnings of written Gascon in the 11th century up to about 1300. The DAG is an onomasiological dictionary organising the vocabulary by subject groups. The emphasis is placed on the expressive means of medieval Gascon by bringing... more...
Empire du sacre québécois
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1984; US$ 6.00À laide des plus récents développements de la sémiotique et de la linguistique, les auteurs exposent la problématique du sacre quils définissent comme un juron, distinct du blasphème, de la malédiction, de limprécation, du serment et de linvocation. more...
Ernst, Gerhard; Gleßgen, Martin-Dietrich; Schmitt, Christian; Schweickard, Wolfgang: Romanische Sprachgeschichte / Histoire linguistique de la Romania. 1. Teilband
De Gruyter 2003; US$ 783.00This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action... more...
Ernst, Gerhard; Gleßgen, Martin-Dietrich; Schmitt, Christian; Schweickard, Wolfgang: Romanische Sprachgeschichte / Histoire linguistique de la Romania. 3. Teilband
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 769.00With regards to historical linguistics, the study of Romance languages enjoys the privilege of a long documentation history, which, with Latin as its basis, dates back almost three thousand years. This long tradition makes it possible to analyze nearly every language-historical aspect, as well as to develop methods and test theories without having... more...
For to Speke Frenche Trewely
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 165.00The first grammatical descriptions of the French language were produced in England, several centuries before the first grammar written in French (but also several centuries after the Norman Conquest). This book describes the status of French in England during the period from the marriage of Emma of Normandy to thelred (1004) to the fixing of a (relatively)... more...









