The Anglo-Norman Dialect - A Manual of Its Phonology and Morphology; With Illustrative Specimens of the Literature #267265

I begin with the anglo-norman dialect as being probably the most important for the general student of Old French philology. This importance is derived from the following fact: The first half-dozen texts in our list offer us Speech characteristics of an Old French dialect at a time for which manuscripts in the ile-de-france dialect are unknown. Many phenomena recorded in our early texts become, at a later date, part of the history of the ile-de-france speech. The study of the first appearances of such phenomena must, then, be of the greatest importance.