Gilles Quentel

List of John Benjamins publications for which Gilles Quentel plays a role.

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Quentel, Gilles. 2011. La néologie expressive et onomatopéique dans l’étymologie du français. Revue Romane 46:1, pp. 89–104
It is generally well-accepted that, in every language, a significant amount of unknown etymologies can be explained by the means of “echoism”, which states that a historically unexplained word can be of onomatopoeic origins. This paper objects to the theory in general, taking the particular case of… read more | Article