French Grammar
French emerged as a Gallo-Romance language from Vulgar Latin in the late antiquity period. The written language is known from at least as early as the 9th century. That language contained many forms still identifiable as Latin. Interest in standardizing French began in the 16th century. Because of the Norman conquest of England and the Anglo-Norman domains in both northwestern France and Britain, English scholars retained an interest in the fate of French as well as of English. Some of the numerous 16th-century surviving grammars are as follows.
- John Palsgrave: L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse (in English), 1530
- Louis Meigret: Tretté de la grammaire françoeze, 1550
- Robert Stephanus: Traicté de la grammaire françoise, 1557
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