Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Latinisation of Gaul 3. The Dialectalisation of Gallo-Romance 4. Selection of Norms 5. Elaboration of Function 6. Codification 7. Acceptance 8. Maintenance of the Standard References

About the Author

R. Anthony Lodge is Professor of French Language and Linguistics at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Le Livre des Manieres d'Etienne de Fougeres (1979), Le Plus Ancien Registre de comptes des Consuls de Montferrand (1985), French: From Dialect to Standard (1993), Exploring the French Language (With N. Armstrong, Y. Ellis and J. Shelton, 1997) and The Earliest Branches of the Roman de Renart (With K. Varty, 2001).