When did we start to speak French? How did the kings of France express themselves? Why have countries whose mother tongue is not French chosen it as their official language? Why does French keep evolving? Where do the feminine and the masculine come from? Why is the imperfect subjunctive disappearing? Why are the French so attached to their spelling?
Between tradition and modernity, this reasoned history of the French language gives way to the most recent theories and current controversies. Its ambition is to initiate reflection on linguistic change by providing the knowledge necessary to understand how a language is born and is transformed.
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