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An Introduction to Old Occitan (Introductions to Older Languages) by William Doremus Paden is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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__An Introduction to Old Occitan__ is the only textbook in print for learning the language used by the troubadours in southern France during the Middle Ages. Each of the thirty-two chapters discusses a subject in the study of the language (e.g., stressed vowels, subjunctive mood) and includes an exercise based on a reading of an Occitan text that has been edited afresh for this volume. An essential glossary analyzes every occurrence of every word in the readings and gives cognates in other Romance languages as well as the source of each word in Latin or other languages. The book also contains a list of prefixes, infixes, and suffixes and a dictionary of proper names.
Who reads An Introduction to Old Occitan (Introductions to Older Languages)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- William Doremus Paden
- Publisher
- The Modern Language Association of America, an imprint of Modern Language Association of America
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781603290548
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Grammar, Dictionaries & Phrasebooks, Language
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