A Grammar of the Norman French of the Channel Islands

The Dialects of Jersey and Sark

Anthony Liddicoat

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9783110126310
• eBook ISBN: 9783110877281
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1.1. General introduction
• 1.2. The Norman dialect
• 1.3. Jersey and Sark
• 1.4. Sources
• Chapter 2 Diachronic phonology
• 2.1. The vowel/a/
• 2.2. /a¦/
• 2.3. The group/ar/
• 2.4. Conservation of/er/
• 2.5. arracher
• 2.6. car, guart
• 2.7. The vowel /e/
• 2.8. The sources of /e/
• 2.9. The diphthongization of /e¦/
• 2.10. Lengthening of/e/
• 2.11. Short /e/ before a final consonant
• 2.12. The influence of affricates on /e/
• 2.13. Closing action of the hiatus
• 2.14. lε
• 2.15. The suffix -ata
• 2.16. The dipthong /je/
• 2.17. Sources of /i/
• 2.18. Sources of/y/
• 2.19. The vowel /ū/ / followed by /j/
• 2.20. ū in hiatus with a vowel
• 2.21. The timbre of /i/ and /y/
• 2.22. /i/ followed by /a/ after /t/
• 2.23. /i/ and /y/ followed by /ə/
• 2.24. The sources of /o/
• 2.25. /o/ before a final consonant
• 2.26. The diphthongization of /o/ in Sercquiais
• 2.27. Lengthening of /o/
• 2.28. /o/ before /r/
• 2.29. /o/ closed to /u/
• 2.30. Diphthongization of /o/ and /oe¦/
• 2.31. The sources of/oe/
• 2.32. The timbre of /oe/
• 2.33. Long /oe¦/
• 2.34. The sources of /u/
• 2.35. The diphthongization of /u/
• 2.36. The loss of /ə/
• 2.37. The conservation of /ə/
• 2.38. The prefixes dis-, ex- and re-
• 2.39. The closure of/ə/
• 2.40. The syllabic aspects of the loss of /ə/
• 2.41. Nasal vowels
• 2.42. The influence of pronounced nasal consonants
• 2.43. Denasalization
• 2.44. The first palatalization
• 2.45. The treatment of labials followed by a yod
• 2.46. The second palatalization
• 2.47. [ʃ] derived from other sources
• 2.48. ka > [tʃ]
• 2.49. The third palatalization
• 2.50. The realization of /dƷ/
• 2.51. Germanic /w-/
• 2.52. Germanic /h-/
• 2.53. Agglutination of consonants in liaison
• 2.54. The treatment of labial consonants in Sercquiais
• 2.55. Initial /λ-/
• 2.56. Intervocalic /-r-/
• 2.57. The realization of /r/
• 2.58. Implosive /r/
• 2.59. pu(r), pa(r), sy(r)
• 2.60. Loss of /r/ before other consonants
• 2.61. Conservation of /r/ in recent borrowings
• 2.62. Loss of /r/ due to assimilation
• 2.63. Addition of /r/
• 2.64. Intervocalic /-λ-/
• 2.65. /-λ-/ followed by a consonant
• 2.66. Intervocalic /z-/
• 2.67. Intervocalic /-v-/
• 2.68. Simple final consonants
• 2.69. Final consonant groups
• Chapter 3 Synchronic phonology
• 3.1. The consonants
• 3.2. The vowels
• 3.3. The semivowels
• 3.4. Definition and classification of phonemes
• 3.5. The combination of phonemes
• Chapter 4 Morpho-syntax
• 4.1. Introduction
• 4.2. The conjugations
• 4.3. The radicals
• 4.4. The infinitive
• 4.5. The present indicative
• 4.6. The imperfect indicative
• 4.7. The imperative
• 4.8. The present subjunctive
• 4.9. The imperfect subjunctive
• 4.10. Uses of the subjunctive
• 4.11. The aorist
• 4.12. The future
• 4.13. The conditional
• 4.14. Classification of the future and the conditional
• 4.15. The present participle
• 4.16. The past participle
• 4.17. Periphrastic verb forms
• 4.18. Interrogative verb forms
• 4.19. The adjective
• 4.20. The adverb
• 4.21. Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
• 4.22. The substantive
• 4.23. The article
• 4.24 The numerals
• 4.25. Personal pronouns
• 4.26. Relatives
• 4.27. The possessive
• 4.28. The demonstrative
• 4.29. Prepositions
• 4.30. νʃẽ, vla
• Chapter 5 Lexicon
• 5.1. Sources of lexical items
• 5.2. Word formation
• 5.3. Comparison of French and the dialects
• 5.4. Lexical variation between the dialects
• Conclusion
• Selected Texts
• Word Lists
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index