by Henriette Walter · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221140505
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«L'aventure des mots français venus d'ailleurs» is Henriette Walter's essay on French lexical borrowings, in paperback (344 pages).
Henriette Walter traces the history of French words that come from other languages and shows how French has been enriched by voices of very diverse origins. The author explains, with examples such as sieste, coton or robot, the mechanisms of adoption and adaptation of these terms, and situates them in the evolution of the language.
Published by Robert Laffont in 2014, this essay is written in French and belongs to the Documento collection.
Recommended for students of French and for readers interested in etymology and the history of words.
Henriette Walter is a French linguist, emeritus professor of French at the University of Rennes 2, and director of the Phonology Laboratory at the École pratique des hautes études at the Sorbonne. She is known for both her specialized academic work and her popular linguistics publications.
