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With an approach that is as charming as it is practical,...

If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That, by Thomas Klingler, is an in-depth study of the Creole language spoken in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, a community situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River above Baton Rouge that dates back to the early eighteenth century. The first comprehensive grammatical description of this particular variety of Louisiana Creole, Klingler's work is timely indeed, since most Creole speakers in the Pointe Coupee area are over sixty-five and the language is not being passed on to younger generations. It preserves and explains an important yet little...

Throughout his long and prolific career as one of France's leading modern dramatists, Jean Anouilh has been fascinated by the theme of the fragility of youthful idealism. Is it possible for the illusions of adolescence to accommodate the compromises and hard truths of middle age? Can love survive in an absolute form, as the young may be led to hope by some of the most venerable fables of European literature and of Greek mythology? Indeed can love survive in any form whatsoever? Modern French theatre in particular has been drawn to Greek myth as a vehicle for an examination of eternal human...

Since its publication in 1913, Alcools has acquired classic status as a major landmark not only in French poetry but in the wider contexts of modern European literature.An indispensable text for an serious study of modernism, it is richly rewarding in its own right: it draw on traditions of folk-song and literary Symbolism, mingles lyrics of disarming simplicity with poems which are so boldly experimental that they can still challenge the modern reader and it looks forward to the discoveries of Surrealism and much else in subsequent writing.Above all, however, it records...

In this novel the author describes life in post-independence Morocco in which a modern regime has taken over the structures left by the French, treating them as tools for further oppression rather than using them to liberate the people.

This edition of Maeterlinck's "Peleas et Melisande" includes English language introduction and notes, and is designed to make accessible a classic text which heralded the ethos of modernism of the late 20th century.

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies...

The earliest translations from English to French have rarely been the objects of careful study. This volume provides detailed empirical analyses of the strategies employed by French translators of early English travel reports on North America. It offers new insights on the history of translation and on aspects of the history of the English and French languages during the 16th and 17th centuries.

The DAG is the first onomasiological dictionary of Old Gascon. It covers the period from the earliest extant documents to the 17th century, taking into account all relevant idioms and sources (incl. medieval Latin and regional French). From fascicle 12 onwards the dictionary is published with a new, clearer article structure that provides more scope for semantic description and the presentation of idioms and contexts.

Das DAG ist das erste nach Sachgruppen geordnete Worterbuch des Altgaskognischen von den ersten Texten bis zur Franzosischen Revolution. Es berucksichtigt alle in diesem Sprachbereich verwendeten Idiome: altgaskognische Skripte, Mittellatein und Regionalfranzosisch. Das Gesamtwerk wird etwa 130 Lieferungen zu 80 Seiten umfassen.