An Outline of the Phonology and Morphology of Old Provençal

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Heath’s Modern Language Series
AN OUTLINE OF THE PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY OF OLD PROVENÇAL
BY C. H. GRANDGENT Professor of Romance Languages in Harvard University
Revised Edition
BOSTON, U. S. A. D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS 1909

Copyright, 1905, BY D. C. Heath & Co.

This book, which is intended as a guide to students of Romance Philology, represents the result of desultory labors extending through a period of twenty years. My first introduction to the scientific pursuit of Provençal linguistics was a course given by Paul Meyer at the École des Chartes in the winter of 1884-85. Since then I have been collecting material both from my own examination of texts and from the works of those philologists who have dealt with the subject. Besides the large Grammars of the Romance Languages by Diez and by Meyer-Lübke, I have utilized H. Suchier’s Die französische und provenzalische Sprache (in Gröber’s Grundriss der romanischen Philologie , I, 561), the Introduzione grammaticale in V. Crescini’s Manualetto provenzale , the Abriss der Formenlehre in C. Appel’s Provenzalische Chrestomathie , and many special treatises to which reference will be made in the appropriate places. Conscious of many imperfections in my work, I shall be grateful for corrections.
I have confined myself to the old literary language, believing that to be of the greatest importance to a student of Romance Philology or of Comparative Literature, and fearing lest an enumeration of modern forms, in addition to the ancient, might prove too bewildering. I should add that neither my own knowledge nor the material at my disposal is adequate to a satisfactory presentation of the living idioms of southern France. These dialects have, however, been investigated for the light they throw on the geographical distribution of phonetic variations; my chief source of information has been F. Mistral’s monumental Dictionnaire provençal-français . Catalan and Franco-Provençal have been considered only incidentally. I have not dealt with word-formation, because one of my students is preparing a treatise on that subject.