From Latin to Modern French

Cover
Preface

List of Phonetic Symbols with Key-words
List of Abbreviations
List of Works Cited

Table of Contents
Chronological List of Middle and Early Modern French Grammarians
Bibliography

Part I EXTERNAL HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE
Chapter I Late Latin
Chapter II Formation of French
Chapter III Formation of Standard French

Part II PHONOLOGY
Chapter I Phonetic Introduction
Chapter II Chronological Survey of Sound-Changes
Chapter III Isolative Changes
Chapter IV Influence of Position in the Word
Chapter V Influence of Expiratory Word-Accent
Chapter VI Palatalization of Consonants
Chapter VII Voicing and Opening of Single Breathed and Plosive...
Chapter VIII Reduction of Lengthened Consonants and Intervocalic Consonantal Groups
Chapter IX Development of the l-Sounds and r
Chapter X Influence Exercised by Palatal Sounds on Vowels
Chapter XI Influence Exercised by Nasal Consonants on Vowels
Chapter XII Influence Exercised by Labial Sounds on Vowels
Chapter XIII Influence Exercised by the l-Sounds and r on Vowels
Chapter XIV Levelling of Diphthongs
Chapter XV Vowel Lengthening in Middle French
Chapter XVI Quality of Vowels in Later Old and Middle French
Chapter XVII Influence of Syntactical Phonetics
Chapter XVIII Loan-Words
Chapter XIX Sound Tables

Part III ORTHOGRAPHY
Chapter I Period I--Old French
Chapter II Period II--Thirteenth Century, Middle and Early Modern France

PART IV MORPHOLOGY
Chapter I Contamination and Analogy
Chapter II Substantives and Adjectives
Chapter III Pronouns
Chapter IV Verbs
Verb Tables

PART V ANGLO-NORMAN
Chapter I Introductory
Chapter II Phonology
Chapter III Orthography
Chapter IV Declension
Chapter V Verbs
Survey of Development

List of texts cited
List of MSS. cited
List of Abbreviated Titles of Modern Works on Anglo-Norman

APPENDIX Conspectus of Dialectal Traits

Index of French and Latin Words
Index of English Words
Index of Verbs and Verbal Forms
Subject Index