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A ‘practice of the variant’ and the origins of the standard. Presentation of a variationist linguistics method for a corpus of Old French charters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2007

HARALD VÖLKER
HARALD VÖLKER
Affiliation:
Romanisches Seminar, Zürichbergstrasse 8, CH-8032 Zürich, Suritzerland e-mail: hvoelker@rom.uzh.ch
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Abstract

Concerning the history of the linguistic standardisation of French, the period which begins with Louis XIV and the 17th century is well known and has been well documented. However, to the present day, discussions about the origins and the early periods of standardisation often suffer from a lack of intralinguistic evidence. The present article makes some suggestions which are designed to help compensate for this lack of evidence, and discusses some results from a German research project on Old French charters.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of French Language Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , July 2007 , pp. 207 - 223
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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