A historical French grammar.
By: by Arsène Darmesteter. Edited by Ernest Muret and Léopold Sudre. Authorized English edition by Alphonse Hartog.
Contributors: Muret, Ernest, 1861-1940.; Sudre, Léopold Maurice Pierre, 1855- joint editor.; Hartog, Alphonse, translator.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Ltd; Macmillan co.
Published: 1899
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: fre; eng
Number of pages: 936
Subjects: French language -- Grammar, Historical
Notes: Awarded the "Prix Saintour" by the French academy, 1897.
Original French edition, "Cours de grammaire historique," published in 4 vols., Paris, 1891-97.
The English translation was made from the 2nd French edition.
"A list of the chief works by M.A. Darmesteter" : p. xvii.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: General introduction.; title: Introduction: History of the French language.; title: book I. Study of the sounds, or phonetics. Appendix to book I (Copies of a French text successively made at the end of the 13th and in the 14th and 15th century, with translation); title: book II. Morphology, or the study of the grammatical forms.; title: book III. Formation of words and life of words. Appendices: I. Doublets. II. The principles of etymology.; title: book IV. Syntax. Appendix: List of authors and texts quoted in book IV.; title: Index of words and phrases.; title: Index of prefixes.; title: Index of intercalated consonants and syllables.; title: Index of suffixes and terminations.