Word Variant Identification in Old French by Peter Willett

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The Old French Translation of William of Tyre and Templars by Peter Edbury

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Les emplois du marqueur discursif « di va » en ancien français by Evelyne Oppermann-Marsaux

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Le principe de surprise annoncée by Christiane Marchello-Nizia

“…This article examines the emergence of the adverb cependant “however” and its various meaning changes, from the temporal meaning “meanwhile” in Old French to the modern concessive meaning. We also examine the grammaticalization of the preposition pendant “while”, and show that this discourse marker’s evolution follows a semantic chain which has already been shown to appear in various cases of grammaticalization : the evolution from time (or concomitance) to concession, through inferred opposition. …”
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Cobalamin Malabsorption due to a Dysfunctional Intrinsic Factor by Jeanne Drouin, Nadia Mikhael

“…An 18-year-old French Canadian student presenting with a severe normocytic anemia, had undetectable serum cobalamin but normal gastric acidity and no evidence of generalized malabsorption. …”
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Étude comparée de l’usage parenthétique des verbes épistémiques dans trois langues romanes by Gerda Haßler

“…It is therefore proposed to consider the diachronic development of epistemic verbs as a case of pragmaticalization, which is confirmed by the case of French, since parenthetical uses can be observed in Old French texts. We seek to demonstrate the hypothesis that the frequency of parenthetical usage, long present in the system of the language, has been intensified by favorable pragmatic conditions.…”
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«Li sens conmence contreval a filer…». Imaginaire du sang et hétérodoxies épiques dans La Bataille Loquifer by Carlos F. Clamote Carreto

“…Hence the fact that in Old French, blood becomes an hypostasis of sens (meaning) by means of a marvelous homophony which seals as one the common fortune of both the substances and determines the particularly striking and unique poetics of blood which we can detect in the study and analysis of an atypical epic poem composed somewhere between the end of the 12th century and the beginnings of the 13th century, La Bataille Loquifer.…”
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