French Words: Past, Present, and FutureMultilingual Matters, 1 janv. 2001 - 125 pages Using an original mode of presentation, the 'textbite', this book seeks to approach the French vocabulary from as many angles as possible - showing how French words are constructed, the difficulties inherent in defining a word, the relationships words enter into, their origins, and recent trends in word formation. Examples and exercises are provided throughout. |
Table des matières
Words With a Long History | 34 |
Words With a Foreign Origin | 63 |
Words with a Short History Neologisms | 97 |
Conclusion | 121 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
20th century absolute synonyms adjectives amongst anglicisms animals antonyms Arabic avoir become in Modern borrowings bound morphemes caballum calque Chapter cheval Classical Latin Cluster consonants Contact between French contribution to French countertonic denoting derived dialects dictionaries Dutch elements English entered French être evoke Exercise flavour following Latin words foreign français France Frankish Free morphemes French descendants French language French words Gallo-Roman Gaulish Gauls German Greek homonyms human types hyphen intermediary language involved Italian large number Latin roots Latin words become lexeme lexical items lexical sets lexicon lexis linguistic meaning mediated Metonymy Modern French Morphological neologisms noun number of words Occitan occur origin orthographic words Persian Portuguese prefixes produced pronunciation Roman Sanskrit Semantic associations semantic field sigles slang small selection sometimes sound Spanish speakers specialised stem variation suffixes suppletion syllable Truncation verbs Verlan vocabulary items vowel Vulgar Latin word classes words in French words relating