A Grammar of the Norman French of the Channel Islands: The Dialects of Jersey and Sark (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL], 13)

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert. Abbreviations 7 Chapter 1 Introduction 13 1.1. General introduction 13 1.2. The Norman dialect 14 1.3. Jersey and Sark 15 1.4. Sources 22 Chapter 2 Diachronic phonology 27 2.1. The vowel/a/ 28 2.2. /a¦/ 29 2.3. The group/ar/ 29 2.4. Conservation of/er/ 31 2.5. arracher 31 2.6. car, guart 31 2.7. The vowel /e/ 31 2.8. The sources of /e/ 32 2.9. The diphthongization of /e¦/ 40 2.10. Lengthening of/e/ 42 2.11. Short /e/ before a final consonant 43 2.12. The influence of affricates on /e/ 45 2.13. Closing action of the hiatus 46 2.14. lε 46 2.15. The suffix -ata 47 2.16. The dipthong /je/ 47 2.17. Sources of /i/ 53 2.18. Sources of/y/ 53 2.19. The vowel /ū/ / followed by /j/ 54 2.20. ū in hiatus with a vowel 54 2.21. The timbre of /i/ and /y/ 55 2.22. /i/ followed by /a/ after /t/ 56 2.23. /i/ and /y/ followed by /ə/ 56 2.24. The sources of /o/ 57 2.25. /o/ before a final consonant 58 2.26. The diphthongization of /o/ in Sercquiais 58 2.27. Lengthening of /o/ 58 2.28. /o/ before /r/ 59 2.29. /o/ closed to /u/ 59 2.30. Diphthongization of /o/ and /oe¦/ 60 2.31. The sources of/œ/ 60 2.32. The timbre of /œ/ 61 2.33. Long /œ¦/ 62 2.34. The sources of /u/ 64 2.35. The diphthongization of /u/ 64 2.36. The loss of /ə/ 69 2.37. The conservation of /ə/ 69 2.38. The prefixes dis-, ex- and re- 70 2.39. The closure of/ə/ 71 2.40. The syllabic aspects of the loss of /ə/ 72 2.41. Nasal vowels 75 2.42. The influence of pronounced nasal consonants 79 2.43. Denasalization 80 2.44. The first palatalization 80 2.45. The treatment of labials followed by a yod 81 2.46. The second palatalization 82 2.47. [ʃ] derived from other sources 83 2.48. ka > [tʃ] 84 2.49. The third palatalization 84 2.50. The realization of /dƷ/ 85 2.51. Germanic /w-/ 85 2.52. Germanic /h-/ 86 2.53. Agglutination of consonants in liaison 86 2.54. The treatment of labial consonants in Sercquiais 86 2.55. Initial /λ-/ 93 2.56. Intervocalic /-r-/ 95 2.57. The realization of /r/ 101 2.58. Implosive /r/ 101 2.59. pu(r), pa(r), sy(r) 103 2.60. Loss of /r/ before other consonants 103 2.61. Conservation of /r/ in recent borrowings 104 2.62. Loss of /r/ due to assimilation 104 2.63. Addition of /r/ 104 2.64. Intervocalic /-λ-/ 104 2.65. /-λ-/ followed by a consonant 105 2.66. Intervocalic /z-/ 105 2.67. Intervocalic /-v-/ 105 2.68. Simple final consonants 106 2.69. Final consonant groups 113 Chapter 3 Synchronic phonology 115 3.1. The consonants 115 3.2. The vowels 125 3.3. The semivowels 135 3.4. Definition and classification of phonemes 136 3.5. The combination of phonemes 147 Chapter 4 Morpho-syntax 153 4.1. Introduction 153 4.2. The conjugations 154 4.3. The radicals 160 4.4. The infinitive 163 4.5. The present indicative 170 4.6. The imperfect indicative 176 4.7. The imperative 179 4.8. The present subjunctive 182 4.9. The imperfect subjunctive 185 4.10. Uses of the subjunctive 189 4.11. The aorist 195 4.12. The future 201 4.13. The conditional 203 4.14. Classification of the future and the conditional 206 4.15. The present participle 208 4.16. The past participle 211 4.17. Periphrastic verb forms 218 4.18. Interrogative verb forms 220 4.19. The adjective 222 4.20. The adverb 231 4.21. Comparison of adjectives and adverbs 237 4.22. The substantive 243 4.23. The article 246 4.24 The numerals 249 4.25. Personal pronouns 252 4.26. Relatives 262 4.27. The possessive 267 4.28. The demonstrative 269 4.29. Prepositions 273 4.30. νʃẽ, vla 297 Chapter 5 Lexicon 301 5.1. Sources of lexical items 301 5.2. Word formation 315 5.3. Comparison of French and the dialects 343 5.4. Lexical variation between the dialects 347 Conclusion 349 Selected Texts 351 Word Lists 375 Notes 457 Bibliography 459 Index 463

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.