L’apport des langues romanes en français actuel
Loanwords from Romance languages in modern French

Author(s): Anna Bochnakowa
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: French language; loanwords; romance languages; le Petit Robert 2017
Summary/Abstract: The text is a review of loanwords from the Romance languages in modern French. The corpus of the analyzed examples (ca. 1300 words) was created with the help of a computer program which was a supplement to the dictionary Le Petit Robert de la Langue Française from 2017. Words from Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Provencal, Occitan and Romanian have been registered. The issue of direct and indirect linguistic loans as well as classification by source languages will be discussed. In addition to the general presentation of Romance loans in French, a dozen or so selected examples will be discussed in terms of morphology, semantics and etymology.

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