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This comprehensive case study of a systematic shift in object expression provides valuable insight into the construal of certain two-place activity verbs in the history of French and how a change in the prepositional system can have dramatic effects on the way their object is realised.

French language --- Verb. --- Direct object. --- Indirect object. --- Etymology. --- Etymology --- Historical linguistics --- Grammar --- 804.0-023 --- 804.0-023 Middelfrans --- Middelfrans --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Middle French language --- Verb --- Direct object --- Indirect object --- French language. --- Language and languages. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Study and teaching.

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The relationship between song quotation and the elevation of French as a literary language that could challenge the cultural authority of Latin is the focus of this book. It approaches this phenomenon through a close examination of the refrain, a short phrase of music and text quoted intertextually across thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century musical and poetic genres. The author draws on a wide range of case studies, from motets, trouvère song, plays, romance, vernacular translations, and proverb collections, to show that medieval composers quoted refrains as vernacular auctoritates; she argues that their appropriation of scholastic, Latinate writing techniques worked to authorize Old French music and poetry as media suitable for the transmission of knowledge. Beginning with an exploration of the quasi-scholastic usage of refrains in anonymous and less familiar clerical contexts, the book goes on to articulate a new framework for understanding the emergence of the first two named authors of vernacular polyphonic music, the cleric-trouvères Adam de la Halle and Guillaume de Machaut. It shows how, by blending their craft with the writing practices of the universities, composers could use refrain quotation to assert their status as authors with a new self-consciousness, and to position works in the vernacular as worthy of study and interpretation. Jennifer Saltzstein is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Oklahoma.

French language. --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Refrain. --- Music --- French poetry --- French language --- History and criticism. --- Middle French language --- Old French language --- Franco-Venetian language --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Poetry --- Old French --- Auctoritates. --- Authors. --- Literature. --- Medieval French Music. --- Old French. --- Poetry. --- Scholastic Writing. --- Vernacular.

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French language --- French philology --- Français médieval --- --anthologie --- --Franse filologie --- Philologie française --- French philology. --- Mittelalter. --- Frankreich. --- 804 --- 447.01 --- Romaanse taalkunde --- Language Nonstandard French (-1400) --- 804 Romaanse taalkunde --- Philologie française --- 091 =40 --- 091 =40 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frans --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frans --- Old French language --- Franco-Venetian language --- Middle French language --- Old French --- Old French literature --- Historical linguistics --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- --French language --- Français (Langue) --- To 1300 --- 1300-1600 (Moyen français) --- French language - Middle French, 1300-1600 --- French language - To 1300 --- --French language - Middle French, 1300-1600 --- Français (langue) --- Avant 1300 (ancien français) --- Lectures et morceaux choisis (enseignement supérieur) --- 1300-1500 (moyen français) --- Manuels d'enseignement supérieur --- Guides, manuels, etc.