Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Defining the Domain
2: Sociolinguistic History of French
3: Processes of Linguistic Change
4: Lexical Change
5: Semantic Change
6: Phonological Change
7: Morphological Change
8: Syntactic Change
In Place of a Conclusion
Bibliography

About the Author

Professor Rebecca Posner has been Professor of Romance Languages, University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hugh's College since 1978. She was made Professor Emeritus in 1996. Previous to this, she was Professor of Romance Languages, University of Ghana, 196365; Reader in Language, University of York, 196578; Visiting Professor of Romance Philology, Columbia University, 197172; and Visiting Senior Fellow, Princeton University, 1983.

Reviews

`a very interesting book in which the author shares the fruits of a long and distinguished career of research and reflection on the French language ... this is one of the most interesting and thought-provoking books on the linguistic history of French to have been published in recent years, a real tour de force.'
William J. Ashby, Journal of French Language Studies