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Intellectual franglais

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2005

MICHAEL BULLEY
MICHAEL BULLEY
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Qualified as a teacher of English in French national education and taught for a time in Dijon.
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Abstract

Some adjectival links across the Channel. Of the countless delights and complexities to be discovered in the relationships among the Indo-European languages, particularly fascinating are the connections between English and French. The two languages start together in proto-Indo-European (if there ever was such a thing), diverge into the Germanic and Latinate branches of the family, come together (north of the channel only) with the merging of French and English after the invasion of William of Normandy in 1066, and have been glued together even more by the influence of the classical languages, particularly Latin, in and after the Renaissance.

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English Today , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 56 - 57
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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