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FRENCH LINGUISTICS RESOURCES

For information about Dictionaries, Grammars, etc.: French Language Resources
For information about : Historical French Dictionaries
For information about Linguistics in general: Linguistics LibGuide

 

French Linguistics

In this Guide you will find Resources for the linguistic analysis of Modern French that will help to understand how the French language works.

We compile resources to cover different aspects:

  • the phonology (different patterns of sounds)
  • phonetics (production of speech sounds by humans)
  • the morphology (internal structure of words)
  • the syntax (ordering of elements within the phrase)
  • the lexis (vocabulary)
  • foreign language pedagogy (second language acquisition)
  • sociolinguistics, history of the french and language contact (Louisiana French, Welsh, Breton, etc)

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History of the French language:

  • 5th-8th centuries.Gallo-Romance, which is a combination of Vulgar Latin and Gaulish
  • 9th-13th centuries. Old French, springing from the Northern Gaul dialects. It became a distinct language with its own grammar. The Strasbourg Oaths are a great example of Old French (Francien).
  • 14th-15th centuries. This is the period of Middle French, where the changes in grammar and pronunciation occurred. Middle French evolved from the French dialect spoken in the Île de France area.
  • 16th century. This is a period of development of Early Modern French. Users were trying to raise the language to the same level as Latin for literary pursuits. This is also the period where French became the official language of the government.
  • 17th-18th centuries. In this period, called the era of Classical Modern French, they fixed the key grammar conventions leading to modern French. It’s the time when French was an international language due to the country’s expansion of its colonies.
  • From the 19th century. The period of Contemporary Modern French was the time for fixing the pronunciation we know today. They declared standardized French as the official language of France, as well as the colonized regions in Africa and Belgium.
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Corpus Linguistics:

The term corpus linguistics refers to corpus-based linguistic studies in general. Archetypical corpus work existed well before the modern digital era, as exemplified by the early attempts of word indexing and concordancing of the Christian Bible in the thirteenth century. However, the emergence of corpus linguistics as an academic discipline is closely linked to the availability of digital tools to record, store, and examine corpora, heralded by the rapid development of computational technology as well as the increasing availability of digital content since the second half of the twentieth century. ". {Corpus Linguistics by Chu-Ren Huang, Yao Yao, In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015]

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UVA COLLECTION ON LINGUISTICS

Useful information for discovering material on French linguistics in our library.

 

Call numbers & Subject Areas (LC Classification Number)

 

Our library classifies all material according to the Library of Congress classification system. Here we include a guide for Linguistics to browse our collection either in person or electronically.

Subclass P: Philology. Linguistics

P1-1091

Philology. Linguistics

P1-85

General

P87-96

Communication. Mass media

P94.7

Interpersonal communication

P95-95.6

Oral communication. Speech

P98-98.5

Computational linguistics. Natural language processing

P99-99.4

Semiotics. Signs and symbols

P99.5-99.6

Nonverbal communication

P101-410

Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar

P118-118.75

Language acquisition

P121-149

Science of language (Linguistics)

P201-299

Comparative grammar

P301-301.5

Style. Composition. Rhetoric

P302-302.87

Discourse analysis

P306-310

Translating and interpreting

P321-324.5

Etymology

P325-325.5

Semantics

P326-326.5

Lexicology

P327-327.5

Lexicography

P375-381

Linguistic geography

P501-769

Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) philology

P901-1091

Extinct ancient or medieval languages

 

Selective list of books on French linguistics present in our library

 

Here we provide you with a selective list of material found in our library. In order to discover all material on French Linguistics, you will have to carry out broader searches on our library catalog: Virgo..

If you want to discover books published but not present in our library, you can perform searches in Worldcat using the same subjects included here.


List of Library of Congress related subjects:

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