Pope Mildred K. From Latin to Modern French

Manchester University Press, 1973. — xxxii, 533 p. — ISBN 0 7190 0176 5.External History of the Language
Late Latin
Formation of French
Formation of Standard French
Phonology
Phonetic Introduction
Chronological Survey of Sound Changes
Isolative Changes
Influence of Position in the Word
Influence of Expiratory Word-Accent
Palatalisation of Consonants
Voicing and Opening of Single Breathed and Plosive Consonants in Vocalic Environment
Reduction of Lengthened Consonants and Intervocalic Consonantal Groups
Development of the l-Sounds and r
Influence Exercised by Palatal Sounds on Vowels
Influence Exercised by Nasal Consonants on Vowels
Influence Exercised by Labial Sounds on Vowels
Influence Exercised by the l-Sounds and r on Vowels
Levelling of Diphthongs
Vowel Lengthening in Middle French, 558-570.
Quality of Vowels in Later Old and Middle French
Influence of Syntactical Phonetics
Loan-Words
Sound Tables, 661-687.
Orthography
Period I Old — French
Period II — Thirteenth Century, Middle and Early Modern French.
Morphology
Contamination and Analogy
Substantives and Adjectives
Pronouns
Verbs
Verb Tables, 1058-1067
Anglo-Norman
Introductory
Phonology
Orthography
Declension.
Verbs
Survey of Development, 1317- 1319Conspectus of Dialectal Traits.French Word Index
English Word Index
Verb Index
Subject Index