David Hornsby
List of John Benjamins publications for which David Hornsby plays a role.
Article
2006 Blue-sky thinking? Léon Bollack and La Langue française en l’an 2003 Language Problems and Language Planning 30:3, pp. 215–238 | Article
This paper tests the predictions of Bollack’s 1903 article against the now known reality of twenty-first-century French. While many of his claims are undoubtedly naïve, Bollack often proves an astute observer of spoken French, who merely underestimates resistance to change in the written language.… read more