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Old French De Ne

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Urban T. Holmes
Urban T. Holmes*
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University of North Carolina
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In the Conquête de Constantinople of Robert de Clary there occurs twice the expression de ne, used to introduce a negative question. The editor, M. Philippe Lauer, writes it as two words, probably considering it the preposition de plus the negative particle.

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Language , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 1926 , pp. 191 - 192
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Copyright © 1926 by Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Classiques frç. du M. A., Paris, 1924.

2 Op. cit., 98.

3 Ibid., 102.

4 Rom. Forsch., 3.1 ff. I have recorded instances at 160a, 170d, 318a, 331a, 331b, 332a and 362a. Though I am convinced there must be some discussion of dene in Cloetta's detailed linguistic introduction, I have been unable to find it.

5 Ibid., 26.

6 Edition Michelant and P. Meyer.

7 Suchier's ninth edition, Paderborn 1921.

8 Classiques frç. du M. A., Paris 1924, pub. by E. Langlois.

9 Wörterbuch, no. 570.

10 REW, no. 2919. In his Gramm, d. rom. Spr., 3. 558, he speaks of the frequency of et as a Fragepartikel in Old French. So far as I have observed he does not mention enne nor dene.

11 I expect to publish a paper shortly on the alternation of -dn-, -sn-, -rn-, -nn-, and -n-, in Old French.

12 H. Pedersen, Vergl. Gramm. d. keltischen Spr., 1. 158.

13 As examples of svarabhakti in the Poème Moral, there are combateroit, averoit, ordene, (op. cit., 86). This is a phenomenon common in the northern dialects.