Observations Sur L'usage Syntaxique De Ronsard Et De Ses Contemporains (French Edition) - Softcover

Edvard Lidforss

 
9780461594607: Observations Sur L'usage Syntaxique De Ronsard Et De Ses Contemporains (French Edition)

Synopsis

Observations Sur L'usage Syntaxique De Ronsard Et De Ses Contemporains by Edvard Lidforss is a scholarly linguistic study of the syntax of early modern French as exemplified by the work of Ronsard and his contemporaries, notably the poets of the Pléiade. The volume situates the formation of the French language within the cultural and political milieu of the Renaissance and centralization of the tongue, and it analyzes the use of articles, nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, moods, tenses, and infinitives with abundant examples from Ronsard’s poetry to illustrate historical usage. An appended section, La Defense et Illustration de la Langue Françoise by Joachim Du Bellay, is included and discussed as a foundational program for refining and illustrating the French language. The author surveys descriptive data and historical interpretation, addressing topics such as the evolution of article usage (definite, indefinite, and partitive), noun classes (proper, common, abstract, material), adjective placement and agreement, pronoun usage, negation, and syntactic variation in the 16th century. The work constitutes a valuable resource for Renaissance linguistics and the study of early modern French grammar and philology.

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