John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist: A Pioneer in Vernacular Language Description

by Gabriele Stein

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When Henry VIII charged John Palsgrave with teaching his sister French, there were no dictionaries or grammars of either French or English. In Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse, a vast work of over 1000 pages, this brilliant priest and linguist, with a dramatist's eye for contemporary life and an ear for colloquial idiom, provided the first bilingual dictionary and contrastive grammar of the two languages. Stein presents a detailed study of his achievement.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198235054

ISBN13:9780198235057

Release Date:October 1997

Publisher:OUP Oxford

Length:524 Pages

Weight:1.99 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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