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Excerpt from The Cultural and the Linguistic Background of Old French: A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Arts It is the purpose of this thesis to give an outline of the origins of the French language up to the point when we can say that the language is French and not Latin or semi-latin. It will not discuss all of the points in this development but will rather discuss more fully the most important elements. Two points of view will be discussed, namely, the cultural and the linguistic. The cultural aspect will deal with the movements of peoples, their customs, their history, their political, social and religious institutions, but only in so far as these influence the development of the language which has in later periods taken its name from the Germanic tribe, the Franks. The linguistic aspect will deal with a few of the main philological changes of a purely linguistic character that have been brought about in time by the numerous, though minute and indistinguishable, variations between the speech of one man and the speech of any other man speaking the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.