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In an attempt to restore the Deffence, et illustration de la langue françoyse to its astonishing provocation and originality, the original edition of 1549, with its primitive spelling and punctuation has been chosen. The Dialogo delle lingue by...
Espace, temps, prépositions is a basic spatial-temporal ontology, resulting from works on mereotopology and reference frames, defining the basic semantics of spatial, temporal and spatial-temporal prepositions in French. Tijana Asic analyzes the...
The great lexicographer Pierre Larousse praised Charles Nodier’s dictionary of onomatopoeias as a « masterpiece of modern linguistics », noting its interest and erudition. Nodier explains in his preface that onomatopoeias are the source for all...
Charles Bally taught his pioneering course on the sociological aspects of language from 1918 to 1936. His courses explored subjects as diverse as language bias, language and fashion, progress and evolution, Saussurian semiology, and especially the...
As a collective system, language does not have the consistency that theoreticians used to credit it with: the system varies from one speaker to another. It is only possible to regain this ideal by focussing on an individual. By studying the linguistic...
The dictionary Novum Glossarium Mediæ Latinitatis covers Latin words, authors and documents from the years 800 to...
These ten studies on general questions, such as Saussure's place in university teaching, or semantics in the Cours de linguistique générale, as well as more specialized matters, such as onomatopeia, proper nouns, or value versus context, testify how...
The notion of perplexity plays a central part in Rabelais’s Tiers Livre. The question ‘Am I to be a cuckold?’ introduces the first truly literary staging of the notion, drawing from both the legal concept of perplexitas, which denotes the awkward...
The Moravian intellectual Jan Amos Komensky better known as Comenius, published his Linguarum methodus novissima in 1648. In it he reveals his method of teaching and learning language. Astonishingly, this treatise bears all the characteristics of a...
Charles Nodier grouped his articles on the origin of languages, the alphabet, ethymology, neology, dialects and onomastics in a book that expresses an original perception of poetry, and literature in general. Written with as much brilliance as bite...
Pierre Larrivée untangles the old grammatical paradox allowing for several negations within the same negative clause through his work of the scope of negations. The scope of each negation over the same predicate is what allows for concordant values...
In 1930, Charles Bally, linguistics professor at Geneva university, gave five lectures on the French language and its teaching in French-speaking Switzerland. In these he elaborates on society’s experience, real or perceived, of a language in...