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Faux amis (or "false friends") are French words that look and sound like English words but have entirely different meanings than what you expect, causing potential misunderstandings and awkward situations.

"French Faux Amis: The Combined Book" will help you avoid these embarrassing misunderstandings. It's written in conversational language and it's easy and fun to read. You'll learn how each French word differs from the English one and see it used correctly in example sentences. And you'll find that you'll learn most of these faux amis without having to consciously memorize them, simply...

Do you wonder why an arm is masculine while a leg is feminine? Why your sofa is masculine but your chair is feminine? And why should a person or victim always be feminine, even if the person or victim you're talking about happens to be a man? And isn't it odd that "masculinit" is feminine?

The illogic of French gender can be very frustrating. But after reading this book, if you see words like "croisement, pays, vin, " or "chocolat, " you will instantly know they are masculine, and you will also immediately recognize that words like "ville, facture, maladie, " and "essence" are feminine.

Das DOM setzt sich zum Ziel, den Wortschatz der altokzitanischen Sprache in einer modernen Anspruchen genugenden Form darzustellen und damit die seit langem erganzungsbedurftigen Worterbucher von Raynouard (1836-1845) und Levy (1894-1924) zu ersetzen. Im Vordergrund des auf mehrere Bande angelegten DOM steht eine detaillierte semantische Analyse der alphabetisch geordneten Stichworter, wobei neben der literarischen und insbesondere der Troubadoursprache auch das nicht-literarische Vokabular berucksichtigt ist. Die Darstellung wird jeweils durch die Wiedergabe des etymologischen...

Le Dictionnaire onomasiologique de l'ancien gascon (DAG) est le premier dictionnaire qui se consacre specifiquement au vocabulaire gascon medieval. Trop souvent assimile a l'occitan medieval dans son sens global, l'ancien gascon est longtemps demeure le grand inconnu de la diachronie gallo-romane.

L'objectif du DAG est de presenter de facon onomasiologique l'inventaire lexical du plus ancien gascon depuis les origines de la langue ecrite, au XI^e siecle jusqu'a 1300 environ, periode qui voit l'apparition des premiers textes litteraires. Le corpus est constitue de...

Der Band enthalt Beitrage zu einem internationalen Kolloquium, welches (seit 1985) in regelmaigen Abstanden diesseits und jenseits des Atlantik stattfindet und dem kontrastierenden Studium des Franzosischen in Europa und Kanada gewidmet ist. Bei dem Trierer Treffen von 2007 standen insbesondere die unterschiedlichen Varietaten des Franzosischen im Mittelpunkt, die in Europa und Kanada zu beobachten sind und beiden Varianten ihr unverwechselbares Aussehen verleihen. Spezialisten aus Kanada, Frankreich und Deutschland haben neueste Ergebnisse ihrer Forschung aus den Bereichen Phonetik und...

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Grober in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages.

The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and...

La terminologie des genres chansonniers a suscite l'interet des musicologues, medievistes, ethnomusicologues et bibliographes soucieux d'une meilleure comprehension de la production chansonniere. L'etude du vocabulaire chansonnier francais met en relief l'existence d'un genre litteraire plus ou moins bref denomme par le mot chanson. C'est du mot chanson et de sa famille lexicale, depuis ses origines en ancien francais jusqu'a nos jours en francais moderne, dont il sera question.

La presente etude entend creer un vocabulaire operatoire utile pour l'avancement des...

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Grober in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages.

The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and...