by Yves Cortez · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782296030817
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«Français ne vient pas du latin!» is the linguistic essay by Yves Cortez, published by L'Harmattan in paperback (157 pages, in French).
The author argues that French does not descend from Latin and that traditional etymology is based on erroneous premises. Throughout the essay he sets out seven pieces of evidence with which he attempts to demonstrate the Italic character of French, close to Italian, and reviews the history of the language to question the usual explanations of the Romance languages.
The subtitle is «Essai sur une aberration linguistique»; the work was published in 2007 and includes bibliographic references.
For readers interested in historical linguistics, etymology and debates about the origin of the Romance languages.
