LES PIÈGES DE L’ÉTYMOLOGIE : LES DIFFICULTÉS DES FRANCOPHONES AU COURS DE L’APPRENTISSAGE DU LATIN
LES PIÈGES DE L’ÉTYMOLOGIE : LES DIFFICULTÉS DES FRANCOPHONES AU COURS DE L’APPRENTISSAGE DU LATIN
Author(s): Tibor ŐRSISubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Phonetics / Phonology, Language acquisition
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: etymology; Latin; vocabulary; phonology; dissonance;
Summary/Abstract: The fact is generally acknowledged that, based on the geneticrelation between French and Latin, knowing one facilitates greatlylearning the other. Therefore, if we start learning Latin after we learnedFrench, we expect a rapid progress, but we are faced with a number ofdifficulties when trying to learn Latin, due to the fact that the twolanguages belong to different linguistic systems as far as theirmorphology is concerned. It is true that most of the French vocabularycomes from Latin, but the phonetic changes that have occurred along thecenturies made it difficult for us to recognize easily the relation betweenthe two linguistic systems. Apart from the phonetic changes, there are alsoimportant semantic changes; what this paper will underline is the frequentdissonance between the French and Latin vocabulary.
- Issue Year: 2009
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 89-99
- Page Count: 11
- Language: French