Use of the term equivocation in French seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (grammarians and homonymy) Cover Image

Équivoquer en français aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (les gram- mairiens et l’homonymie)
Use of the term equivocation in French seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (grammarians and homonymy)

Author(s): Marcin Jakubczyk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: French grammars of seventeenth-century; equivocation; homonymy; history of the language

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of homonymy, now located within the semantics, it was included in days of old, in accordance with the then current state of knowledge of the language, to the grammatical descriptions. Homonyms (including homophones and homographes) was determined in the seventeenth-century French grammars as mots équivoques, so equivocations (Polish former: ekwiwok, ekiwok). The article analyzed the lists of equivocations contained in grammars published in the seventeenth century in France and in the first two Polish-French grammars published in Poland at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

  • Issue Year: 13/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 29-37
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: French